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View synonyms for love-in

love-in

[ luhv-in ]

noun

  1. a usually organized public gathering of people, held as a demonstration of mutual love or in protest against inhumane policies.


love-in

noun

  1. a gathering at which people express feelings of love, friendship, or physical attraction towards each other


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Word History and Origins

Origin of love-in1

1965–70, Americanism; love, -in 3

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Example Sentences

The public love-in with Jennifer Lawrence was sealed with her daring, red slinky Calvin Klein number at the 2011 Oscars.

Comedy Central's Broad City is love-in-the-time-of-sexting depiction of millennials.

It was, as you would expect, the definition of a political love-in.

In any case, questions of that kind would have ruined the Mick Jagger love-in.

"Love-In-Idleness" has passed into a proverb, and lovers, somehow, are not generally supposed to be industrious.

This is one of the most beautiful annuals there is, and its charming English name is Love-in-a-mist.

Perhaps you will like some of your Love-in-a-mist to form its handsome seed-pods and sow itself for next year.

Shakespeare said maidens called it "love-in-idleness," and Drayton named it "heartsease."

These love-in-the-mists will look just right with your dress and your eyes and your ways.

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