[luhv] 
noun, verb, loved, lov⋅ing.| 1. | a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. |
| 2. | a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend. |
| 3. | sexual passion or desire. |
| 4. | a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart. |
| 5. | (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love? |
| 6. | a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour. |
| 7. | sexual intercourse; copulation. |
| 8. | (initial capital letter ) a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid. |
| 9. | affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor. |
| 10. | strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books. |
| 11. | the object or thing so liked: The theater was her great love. |
| 12. | the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God. |
| 13. | Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing. |
| 14. | a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L. |
| 15. | to have love or affection for: All her pupils love her. |
| 16. | to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for (another person). |
| 17. | to have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music. |
| 18. | to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight. |
| 19. | to embrace and kiss (someone), as a lover. |
| 20. | to have sexual intercourse with. |
| 21. | to have love or affection for another person; be in love. |
| 22. | love up, to hug and cuddle: She loves him up every chance she gets. |
| 23. | for love,
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| 24. | for the love of, in consideration of; for the sake of: For the love of mercy, stop that noise. |
| 25. | in love, infused with or feeling deep affection or passion: a youth always in love. |
| 26. | in love with, feeling deep affection or passion for (a person, idea, occupation, etc.); enamored of: in love with the girl next door; in love with one's work. |
| 27. | make love,
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| 28. | no love lost, dislike; animosity: There was no love lost between the two brothers. |
| love (lŭv) n.
v. tr.
To experience deep affection or intense desire for another. [Middle English, from Old English lufu; see leubh- in Indo-European roots.] Synonyms: These nouns denote feelings of warm personal attachment or strong attraction to another person. Love is the most intense: marrying for love. |
love humour
What some users feel for computers.
"There is no truth in the rumour that I love computers, it's just what I tell them to get them to bed."
-- Terry Pratchett
[What did you expect in a computing dictionary?]
(2007-05-11)
Love
This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its use by our Lord in his interview with "Simon, the son of Jonas," after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says, "Lovest thou me?" he uses the Greek word _agapas_; and when Simon answers, he uses the Greek word _philo_, i.e., "I love." This is the usage in the first and second questions put by our Lord; but in the third our Lord uses Simon's word. The distinction between these two Greek words is thus fitly described by Trench:, "_Agapan_ has more of judgment and deliberate choice; _philein_ has more of attachment and peculiar personal affection. Thus the 'Lovest thou' (Gr. agapas) on the lips of the Lord seems to Peter at this moment too cold a word, as though his Lord were keeping him at a distance, or at least not inviting him to draw near, as in the passionate yearning of his heart he desired now to do. Therefore he puts by the word and substitutes his own stronger 'I love' (Gr. philo) in its room. A second time he does the same. And now he has conquered; for when the Lord demands a third time whether he loves him, he does it in the word which alone will satisfy Peter ('Lovest thou,' Gr. phileis), which alone claims from him that personal attachment and affection with which indeed he knows that his heart is full." In 1 Cor. 13 the apostle sets forth the excellency of love, as the word "charity" there is rendered in the Revised Version.
love
In addition to the idioms beginning with love, also see all's fair in love and war; course of true love; fall in love; for the love of; labor of love; make love; misery loves company; no love lost; not for love or money; puppy love; somebody up there loves me.