How to pronounce love

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What love means

noun

Most people know love in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A score of zero in tennis and similar games

In a sentence: Sam had not won a single point in the tennis game, so his score was still love.

Where it comes from: Most experts now think it comes from doing something for love, meaning for nothing, so love came to mean a score of nothing. An old idea that it came from the French word for egg is no longer widely believed.

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