<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a strong feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, such as for a parent, child, friend, or pet: He bent and kissed his newborn daughter on the brow, his heart full of love and gratitude.</li><li>Synonyms: friendliness, regard, inclination, liking</li><li>Antonyms: dislike, hatred</li><li>a profoundly tender, passionate affection, often mingled with sexual desire, for another person: The couple’s ardent love for each other, poured out in these love letters, survived their wartime separation.</li><li>Synonyms: tenderness, adoration, passion, warmth, predilection, fondness</li><li>Antonyms: dislike, hatred</li><li>sexual passion or desire.</li><li>active, self-giving concern for the well-being of others: Love of one's neighbor is the greatest virtue. What this suffering world needs is more love.</li><li>a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart: I long to be with you, my love. He was my first and only love.</li><li>(used as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?</li><li>a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour: It's the story of her many loves, told through the eyes of a journalist.</li><li>sexual intercourse; copulation.</li><li>Love, a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid.</li><li>strong enthusiasm or liking for anything: His huge personal library testified to his love of books.</li><li>a thing for which one has a strong enthusiasm or liking: The theater was her great love.</li><li>Religion: the benevolent affection and deep compassion of God for all creatures, or the reverent devotion returned from them to God.</li><li>Chiefly Tennis: a score of zero; nothing.</li><li>a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to have a warm personal attachment to or deep affection for: All her students love her. I fuss over you, I know, but I love you and I want you to be safe.</li><li>Synonyms: like</li><li>Antonyms: detest, hate</li><li>to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection, often mingled with sexual desire, for (another person).</li><li>Synonyms: worship, adulate, adore</li><li>Antonyms: hate, detest</li><li>to feel a strong liking for or take great pleasure in; enjoy actively and with enthusiasm: I love music. He's loving his new job.</li><li>to feel or show active, self-giving concern for: Love your neighbor—even the one you don’t like.</li><li>to feel or express reverent devotion toward; adore.</li><li>to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight.</li><li>to have sexual intercourse with.</li><li>to embrace and kiss (someone), as a lover.</li><li>(used without object) to have love or affection for another person; be in love: Those who have never loved will not understand what I am saying.</li><li>verb phrase: to hug and cuddle: She loves that little guy up every chance she gets.</li></ul>