love

noun18

1. •
   a deep feeling of caring about someone and wanting them to be happy and safe
2. •
   Strong affection.
3. •
   A profound and caring affection towards someone.

   • A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
   • My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.
4. •
   Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.

   • The love of your neighbor as yourself, is expressly given as the definition and test of Charity,—not alms-giving—and this love is … the highest of all the Divine commands[.] — 1864
5. •
   A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.

   • I have never been in love as much as I have with you.
6. •
   A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.

   • My love of cricket knows no bounds.
7. •
   A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.

   • Open the temple gates unto my love. — 1595
8. •
   (Commonwealth, informal) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.

   • Hello love, how can I help you?
9. •
   Zero, no score.

   • So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
10. •
    Nothing; no recompense.

    • I fought the white man for less than sixpence. I fought him for love, which is nothing at all. — 1916
11. •
    An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.

    • Maybe it was just a summer love, something with no future. — 2014
12. •
    Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
13. •
    A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
14. •
    (euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.

    • The prospect that their cherished Greeks would have countenanced, much less honored, a love between men that expressed itself carnally, however, was not so easily assimilated. — 2013
15. •
    (euphemistic) Sexual activity.

    • —What think you, my lord, of... love? —You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’. — 1986
16. •
    A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
17. •
    (no longer used) Charity.
18. •
    (no longer used) A thin silk material.

    • Such a kind of transparency, as that of a Sive, a piece of Cyprus, or a Love-Hood. — 1664

verb7

1. •
   To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

   • I love my spouse. I love you! I love that song!
2. •
   To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.

   • I love walking barefoot on wet grass; I'd love to join the team; I love what you've done with your hair
3. •
   To derive delight from a fact or situation.

   • I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
4. •
   To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).

   • For God so loued þe world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life. — 1611
5. •
   To need, thrive on.

   • Mold loves moist, dark places.
6. •
   (euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

   • I wish I could love her all night long.
7. •
   (Internet) Synonym of heart (verb).

   • She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.

noun1

1. •
   radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter L.