Definition of Fall in love

1. Verb. Begin to experience feelings of love towards. "Sam and Sue fall in love"; "She fell in love with her former student"

Generic synonyms: Fall

Definition of Fall in love

1. Verb. (intransitive of a person animate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of love directed at another person or a thing. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive reciprocal) To come to have feelings of love towards each other. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive of a person inanimate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall In Love

fall by the wayside
fall cankerworm
fall dandelion
fall down
fall equinox
fall flat
fall for
fall foul
fall from grace
fall guy
fall ill
fall in
fall in line
fall in love (current term)
fall in with
fall into
fall into place
fall line
fall of wicket
fall off
fall off a truck
fall off the back of a lorry
fall off the back of a truck
fall off the turnip truck
fall off the wagon
fall on
fall on deaf ears
fall on one's face

Literary usage of Fall in love

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"Perhaps with some grey head this may prevail With Christ to fall in love, and sin bewail. Tell them also how Master Fearing went On pilgrimage, ..."

2. Ethics and Natural Law: A Reconstructive Review of Moral Philosophy Applied by George Lansing Raymond (1920)
"... and Anticipated in Education—Courtship, Friendship, and Love— The Qualities Attracting those who Fall in Love—Risks Attending Merely Bodily or Merely ..."

3. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"Te "fall in love !" what an unhappy catastrophe ! ... She does not suffer a man to fall in love, or to wade in, but she catches the admirer by the hand, ..."

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