love letter

English

Noun

love letter (plural love letters)

1. A letter written about the author's love for the intended reader.

   We never see each other, but have been sending love letters every Valentine's Day for 10 years.

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   • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:

     Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

2. (figurative) A work that shows great passion or enthusiasm for something.

   This movie is a love letter to New York.

Synonyms

• billet-doux

Translations

letter about the author's love

• Afrikaans: liefdesbrief
• Arabic: رِسَالَةُ حُبٍّ f (risālatu ḥubbin)
• Belarusian: любо́ўны ліст m (ljubóŭny list)
• Bulgarian: любо́вно писмо́ n (ljubóvno pismó)
• Burmese: မှာတမ်း (my) (hmatam:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 情書／情书 (cing⁴ syu¹), 情书 (cing⁴ syu¹)

  Mandarin: 情書／情书 (zh) (qíngshū), 情书 (zh) (qíngshū)

  Min Nan: 情批 (chêng-phoe, chêng-phe)

• Czech: milostný dopis m, líbesbríf m
• Dutch: liefdesbrief (nl) m
• Esperanto: amoletero
• Estonian: armastuskiri
• Finnish: rakkauskirje (fi)
• French: lettre d’amour f
• German: Liebesbrief (de) m
• Greek: ερωτικό γράμμα n (erotikó grámma)
• Gujarati: પ્રેમપત્ર (prempatra)
• Hindi: प्रेम पत्र m (prem patra)
• Hungarian: szerelmes levél
• Icelandic: ástarbréf n
• Italian: lettera d'amore f
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• Japanese: ラブレター (raburetā), 恋文 (こいぶみ, koibumi), 付け文 (つけぶみ, tsukebumi)
• Korean: 연애편지 (ko) (yeonaepyeonji) (戀愛便紙 (ko)), 련애편지 (ryeonaepyeonji) (North Korea)
• Macedonian: љубовно писмо n (ljubovno pismo)
• Marathi: प्रेम पत्र n (prem patra)
• Ojibwe: zaagi'iwe-mazina'igan
• Persian: نامه عاشقانه (nâme-ye 'âšeqâne)
• Polish: list miłosny m
• Portuguese: carta amorosa f
• Russian: любо́вное письмо́ n (ljubóvnoje pisʹmó)
• Scottish Gaelic: litir-leannanachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: љубавно писмо n

  Roman: ljubavno pismo n

• Slovak: ľúbostný list m
• Slovene: ljubezensko pismo n
• Spanish: carta amorosa f, carta de amor f
• Swedish: kärleksbrev (sv)
• Telugu: ప్రేమలేఖ (prēmalēkha), మన్మథపత్రిక (manmathapatrika)
• Thai: จดหมายรัก
• Turkish: aşk mektubu
• Ukrainian: любо́вний лист m (ljubóvnyj lyst)
• Volapük: lelöfapened