noun

• (uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
• (uncountable) Strong affection.
  "A mother’s love is not easily shaken."
• (uncountable) Strong affection.
  "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[.]"
• (uncountable) Strong affection.
  "I have never been in love as much as I have with you."

verb

• (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
  "I love my spouse. I love you! I love that song!"
• (transitive) To need, thrive on.
  "Mold loves moist, dark places."
• (transitive) 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"
• (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) 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."

noun

• (racquet sports, billiards) Zero, no score.
  "So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova."

noun

• (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter L.