FALL IN LOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fall in love mean? 

• FALL IN LOVE (verb)
  The verb FALL IN LOVE has 1 sense:

1. begin to experience feelings of love towards

  Familiarity information: FALL IN LOVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALL IN LOVE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Begin to experience feelings of love towards

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She fell in love with her former student

Hypernyms (to "fall in love" is one way to...):

fall (pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue fall in love

 Context examples 

That’s a lot of planetary energy in your love sector, which crowns you the sign most likely to fall in love in 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

To be sure, you knew no actual good of me—but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It would trouble me sadly to make him unhappy, for I couldn't fall in love with the dear old fellow merely out of gratitude, could I?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Whenever I fall into trouble, or fall in love, I shall always tell you, if you'll let me—even when I come to fall in love in earnest.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Rochester was about forty, and this governess not twenty; and you see, when gentlemen of his age fall in love with girls, they are often like as if they were bewitched.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was rich, and being turned on shore, fully intended to settle as soon as he could be properly tempted; actually looking round, ready to fall in love with all the speed which a clear head and a quick taste could allow.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Waiving that point, however, and supposing her to be, as you describe her, only pretty and good-natured, let me tell you, that in the degree she possesses them, they are not trivial recommendations to the world in general, for she is, in fact, a beautiful girl, and must be thought so by ninety-nine people out of an hundred; and till it appears that men are much more philosophic on the subject of beauty than they are generally supposed; till they do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces, a girl, with such loveliness as Harriet, has a certainty of being admired and sought after, of having the power of chusing from among many, consequently a claim to be nice.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I remember too, Miss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore her puce-coloured sarsenet; and she looked so heavenly that I thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her; I could not sleep a wink all right for thinking of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But this I will say, that his fault, the liking to make girls a little in love with him, is not half so dangerous to a wife's happiness as a tendency to fall in love himself, which he has never been addicted to.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)