lost love

collocation in English

meaningsoflostandlove

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lost
adjective
uk
/lɒst/us
/lɑːst/
not knowing where you are and how to get to ...
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love
noun
uk
/lʌv/us
/lʌv/
the feeling of liking another adult very much and being romantically and sexually attracted to them, or strong feelings of liking a friend or person in ...
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(Definition oflostandlovefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The choir sang the guidebook material, whilst hidden solo voices sang the ancient poetry aboutlostlove.
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Nine months later a voice came to him in his sleep telling him to go back to the tomb and see what he had engendered on hislostlove.
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Nine months later a voice came to him in his sleep, telling him to go back to the tomb to see what he had engendered on hislostlove.
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The lyrics meant that the singer wanted herlostlovemore than an addict pines for drugs.
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A common theme in these songs is lamentation overlostlovein the houses of pleasure.
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The pensive lyrics tell the story of a man whose mind is flooded with memories of alostlove.
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He called it a wistful reflection onlostlove, but a bit sketchy.
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The bartender and cocktail waitress remember them, and they all tell tales oflostlovein the past, vowing to give up dating.
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Suddenly, he is ambling down a long corridor drawn towards a woman's voice lamenting herlostlove.
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He will try to forget her by remaking his life, but haunted by the memory of thislostlove, he will not succeed.
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The song describes an anonymouslostlove, who no longer loves the persona after they had a falling-out.
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There's the pain oflostloveand the brutality of unrequited love.
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It is a song about age but it is also aboutlostlove.
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This is a tale oflostlovetold from the perspective of the abandoned one.
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The title chorus provides a break, followed by the second verse, telling of alostlove, and the chorus again provides a break.
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They focus mainly on the themes of existential grief andlostlove, also common to the rebetiko.
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But she is in two minds between upgrading her career and staying back forlostlove.
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The song's plot focuses onlostloveand the narrator reconciling with her partner.
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It turns out that he himself is herlostlove; he promised her marriage while in her village in the mountains but then disappeared.
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Gaimaral sadly returned to his father's domains, naming rivers, towns and regions for hislostlove.
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