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Definition: Love Story |
Love StoryNoun1. A story dealing with love. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Love StorySynonym: romance (n). (additional references) |
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The movie was adapted by Erich Segal from his own novel, and directed by Arthur Hiller.
It won the Academy Award for Original Music Score, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Ryan O'Neal), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (John Marley), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ali MacGraw), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced.
Love Story was followed by a 1978 sequel, Oliver's Story.
Erich Segal has said that he based the character of Oliver on Vice President Al Gore and Gore's Harvard roommate Tommy Lee Jones.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Love Story."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Love | Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship; amourette; free love. |
The Drama | Western, horse opera; flick; spy film, love story, adventure film, documentary, nature film; pornographic film, smoker, skin flick, X-rated film. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It will be a love story for she will be my heroine for all time. (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) It's the classic American love story. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) It's a love story and a who done it! (Only Fools and Horses; writing credit: John Sullivan) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love Story (2001) Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935) Her Love Story (1924) The Love Story of Aliette Brunton (1924) A Prehistoric Love Story (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mr. Henry Ludlowe in The raven the love story of Edgar Allan Poe by George Hazelton. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "love story"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | histori dashurie (amour, amourette, romance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قصة حب (romance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | любовен роман. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | příbìh o lásce. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rakkausromaani. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | liebesgeschichte (love affair, romance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szerelmi történet (love-story). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 艶物 , 軟文学 (erotic literature), 人情噺 (real-life story), ラフィア椰子 (lab, label, labeling, laboratory, love, love affair, love chair, love child, love game, love hotel, love hunt, love juice, love letter, love play, love romance, love seat, love song, love-in, Rachmaninoff, raffia palm, raft, RAPCON, rhapsody, romantic comedy, rough play, rough sketch, rupture disk, soap opera, the forest), 情話 (conversing from the heart), 恋物語 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ラブストーリー (soap opera), な"ぶ"がく (erotic literature), つやもの, に"じょうばなし (real-life story, story whose theme is warm human relationships), "いものがたり, じょうわ (conversing from the heart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skeeal graih. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ovelay orystay любовная история (love-story). (various references) ljubavna priča. (various references) kärlekshistoria (love affair). (various references) aşk hikâyesi (romance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-o-r-s-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: looters, overtly, retools, revolts, toolers. | |
-3 letters: looeys, looser, looter, lovers, ostler, overly, oyster, retool, revolt, solver, sorely, sterol, storey, stover, strove, styler, tooler, torose, toyers, troves, vestry, volery, volost, voltes, voters. | |
-4 letters: looey, loose, loots, lores, loser, lotos, lover, loves, lyres, oleos, orles, overs, overt, oyers, roles, roose, roost, roots, rooty, roset, rotes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-o-r-s-t-v-y" | |
+3 letters: overmodestly. | |
+5 letters: dorsoventrally. | |
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