# loved

Pronunciation: say "LUVD" /lʌvd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of love. — simple past and past participle of love
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of love. Use this form when talking about love in the past.
   - _He loved the quiet mornings before the rest of the house woke up._
   - _She had loved that little farmhouse since she was a child._

## Adjective

2. Held as the object of someone's love or deep affection.
   - Simple: Cared about deeply by other people.
   - _He was a deeply loved teacher whose former students still wrote to him._
   - _She felt loved and supported throughout the long months of her recovery._

## Origin

This is the past tense and past participle of "love," from Middle English loved (also luvd, iloved), which comes from Old English lufode and ġelufod, forms of the verb lufian. It is equivalent to "love" plus "-ed."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/loved (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).