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Definition: Fall In Love |
Fall In LoveVerb1. Begin to experience feelings of love towards; "She fell in love with her former student". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Endearment | Fall in love with, win the affections; (love); die for. |
Love | Burn; adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument; dote on, dote upon; take a fancy to, look sweet upon; become enamored; Adjective: fall in love with, lose one's heart; desire. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fall In Love |
| English words defined with "fall in love": fall for ♦ in love ♦ particular ♦ To lose one's heart. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fall in love": Bridge ♦ Cavern or Cave ♦ Fag Hag, Flute ♦ Jew's-harp ♦ safety ♦ Wo!. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The Oracle told me that I would fall in love and that that manthat I loved would be the one. So you see, you can't be dead. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) You love me? I thought we had decided not to fall in love. That we'd be forced to love a lie and that it would destroy our lives. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas) Well, you can't control who you fall in love with. (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) Did you ever fall in love with an older woman? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Women make the best psychoanalysts until they fall in love. After that they make the best patients. (Spellbound; writing credit: Ben Hecht) | |
Lyrics | No, said I'd never fall in love again ("Caught Up in You"; performing artist: 38 Special) To fall in love twice a day ("Girls of Summer"; performing artist: Aerosmith) I didn't mean to fall in love with you ("Ghost Of You And Me"; performing artist: BBMak) That you don't fall in love overnight ("Brokenhearted"; performing artist: Brandy) Man meets woman and they fall in love ("TUNNEL OF LOVE"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Let's Fall in Love (1933) Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998) | |
Song Titles | Don't Wanna Fall In Love (performing artist: Jane Child) Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer (performing artist: Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes) I Could Fall In Love (performing artist: Selena) If I Ever Fall In Love (performing artist: Shai) Why Do Fools Fall In Love (performing artist: Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ovid | If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love. |
Peter De Vries | The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The moment when Cosette would fall in love might come at any instant. |
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Expressions using "fall in love": fall in love with ♦ fall in love with smb.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
when i fall in love | 122 |
fall in love | 95 |
why do fool fall in love | 58 |
could i fall in love | 37 |
why don t we fall in love | 17 |
fall in love again | 14 |
what do you get when you fall in love | 9 |
shai if i ever fall in love | 7 |
again aziel fall in love | 7 |
fool fall in love | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fall in love"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bie në dashuri (be gone on smb., fall for). (various references) | |
Arabic | وقع بحب, عشق (connect, dovetail, engage, fall for, fall in love with, falling in love, lose one's heart, love, passion). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | влюбвам се (fall for). (various references) | |
Czech | zamilovat se do koho (fall in love with smb.), zamilovat se do (fall for, fall in love with). (various references) | |
Danish | forlove sig med (become engaged with, become the fiacée of, become the fiancé of, fall in love with), forelske sig (fall in love with). (various references) | |
Dutch | verliefd worden op (fall in love with), verliefd raken op (fall in love with). (various references) | |
Esperanto | enamiĝi en (fall in love with), enamiĝi al (fall in love with). (various references) | |
Finnish | rakastua. (various references) | |
French | tomber amoureux (fall for, falling in love). (various references) | |
German | sich verlieben (to fall in love). (various references) | |
Greek | ερωτεύομαι (fall for, fall in love with). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"תא"ב (become enamoured of, fall for, lose one's heart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerelmes lesz, beleszeret. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kasmaran (crazy for somebody). (various references) | |
Italian | innamorare (charm, enamor, enamour, make love on). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 見初める (to fall in love at first sight, to see for the first time), 惚れる (to be charmed with, to be in love, to fall in love, to lose one's heart to), 恋する (to fall in love with, to love), 恋'する (to fall in love), 大好きになる (to come to like a lot, to fall in love). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ほれる (to be charmed with, to be in love, to fall in love, to lose one's heart to), "いする (to fall in love with, to love), "い'する (to fall in love), みそめる (to fall in love at first sight, to see for the first time), いすきになる (to come to like a lot, to fall in love). (various references) | |
Norwegian | forelske seg i (fall in love with), forelske seg (fall in love with). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allfay inay ovelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ruir (collapse, topple). (various references) | |
Romanian | se îndrãgosti de (fall in love with). (various references) | |
Russian | влюбиться (fall for, lose one's heart). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zaljubiti se (enamor, enamour). (various references) | |
Spanish | estar enamorado (enamor, enamour), encampanarse (boast, drag, get into a jam), enamorarse (fall for, lose one's heart), amelcocharse (be coy). (various references) | |
Swedish | förälska sig. (various references) | |
Turkish | abayı yakmak (be smitten with, be struck on smb., fall for, have a crush on smb.), aşık olmak (be enamored of, be enamoured of, be in love, be struck on smb., be stuck on, be sweet on smb., have a crush on smb., lose one's heart to smb.). (various references) | |
Ukranian | закохатися (become fond of, fall for). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adama, adamantem, adamaret, adamaveris, adamavi, adamavit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-l-l-n-o-v" | |
-3 letters: alveoli, flavine, flavone, linalol, novella. | |
-4 letters: alevin, alvine, eolian, faille, fallen, finale, flavin, foveal, infall, lienal, lineal, niello, olefin, valine, veinal, venial, villae, vineal. | |
-5 letters: alien, aline, alive, aloin, alone, anile, anole, anvil, avion, elain, elfin, eloin, envoi, fella, felon, fille, fillo, final, flail, folia, fovea, ileal, laevo, levin, liane, liven, llano, naevi, naive, navel, nival, novae, novel, olein, olive, ovine, venal, villa, vinal, viola, voila, voile. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6C 6C 49 6E 4C 6F 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01001001 01101110 00100000 01001100 01101111 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a l l   I n   L o v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006C 006C 0049 006E 004C 006F 0076 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067787824380246818871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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