LOVE

[noun] [U]Love means strong feelings of attraction towards and affection for another adult, or great affection for a friend or family member.Our love will last forever.Children need to be shown lots of love."I'm seeing Laura next week." "Oh, please give/send her my love" (= Tell her I am thinking about her with affection).(informal) How's your love life (= your romantic and/or sexual relationships) these days?If you are in love (with someone), you feel strongly attracted to them and like them very much.I'm in love for the first time and it's wonderful.They're still madly in love (with each other).Your love is a person that you love and feel attracted to.You are the love of my life (= the person I feel greatest love for).(UK informal) 'Love' is also used as a friendly form of address. It is not often used by a man talking to another man.You look tired, love. [as form of address]That'll be four pounds exactly, my love. [as form of address](informal) You also write 'love/love from/all my love' before your name at the end of letters and on presents to friends and family.If someone is love-struck, they are so in love with someone that it is difficult for them to behave as usual or even think of anything else except the person they love.Look at me, I'm behaving like a love-struck teenager!If you cannot get something, or if someone will not do something, for love (n)or money, it is impossible to obtain it or to persuade them to do it.You can't get hold of those tickets for love or money these days.I'm not getting on that aeroplane for love nor money.If two people who have a close loving relationship make love, they have sex.They made love for the first time that night.Love-making is sexual activity.(old use) To make love to someone is to speak romantically and give a lot of attention to them, esp. in order to make them love you.Mr Jackson, I do believe you are making love to me.If there is no/little love lost between two people, they do not like each other.Ever since they had that quarrel there's been no love lost between them.A love affair is a sexual relationship between two people who are not married to each other.Their secret love affair lasted seven years.(figurative) Her love affair with (= strong liking for) ballet began when she was ten.(dated) A love child is a child whose parents are not married to each other.(humorous) Love handles are the layer of fat around the middle of a person's body.A love letter is a letter that you write to someone that you are having a romantic relationship with.