Popular Synonym - Love

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The noun love has 6 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)

1. (42) love -- (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love")
2. (3) love, passion -- (any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting";)
3. (2) beloved, dear, dearest, loved one, honey, love -- (a beloved person; used as terms of endearment)
4. (1) love, sexual love, erotic love -- (a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love")
5. love -- (a score of zero in tennis or squash; "it was 40 love")
6. sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life -- (sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life")

The verb love has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (43) love -- (have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him")
2. (26) love, enjoy -- (get pleasure from; "I love cooking")
3. (13) love -- (be enamored or in love with; "She loves her husband deeply")
4. roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away -- (have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?")

Quotes: Love

Synonyms: affection, adoration, friendship, tenderness, feeling, fondness, devotion, passion, ardor, amity

Antonym: hatred

Synonyms: darling, dear, dearest, sweetheart, honey

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6 senses of love

Sense 1
love -- (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love")
-> emotion -- (any strong feeling)
=> conditioned emotional response, CER, conditioned emotion -- (an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning)
=> anger, choler, ire -- (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)
=> fear, fearfulness, fright -- (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))
=> fear, reverence, awe, veneration -- (a profound emotion inspired by a deity; "the fear of God")
=> anxiety -- (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)
=> joy, joyousness, joyfulness -- (the emotion of great happiness)
=> love -- (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love")
=> hate, hatred -- (the emotion of hate; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)
=> emotional state, spirit -- (the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose")

Sense 2
love, passion -- (any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting";)
-> object -- (the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection")
=> antipathy -- (the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided; "cats were his greatest antipathy")
=> bugbear, hobgoblin -- (an object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson)
=> execration -- (the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated)
=> center, center of attention -- (the object upon which interest and attention focuses; "his stories made him the center of the party")
=> hallucination -- (an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination")
=> infatuation -- (an object of extravagant short-lived passion)
=> love, passion -- (any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting";)

Sense 3
beloved, dear, dearest, loved one, honey, love -- (a beloved person; used as terms of endearment)
-> lover -- (a person who loves or is loved)
=> admirer, adorer -- (someone who admires a young woman; "she had many admirers")
=> beloved, dear, dearest, loved one, honey, love -- (a beloved person; used as terms of endearment)
=> betrothed -- (the person to whom you are engaged)
=> boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain, young man -- (a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked")
=> darling, favorite, favourite, pet, dearie, deary, ducky -- (a special loved one)
=> girlfriend, girl, lady friend -- (a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out")
=> idolizer, idoliser -- (a lover blind with admiration and devotion)
=> inamorata -- (a woman with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship)
=> inamorato -- (a man with whom you are in love or have an intimate relationship)
=> kisser, osculator -- (someone who kisses)
=> necker -- (a lover who necks)
=> petter, fondler -- (a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one; "they are heavy petters")
=> Romeo -- (an ardent male lover)
=> soul mate -- (someone for whom you have a deep affinity)
=> squeeze -- ((slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend; "she was his main squeeze")
=> sweetheart, sweetie, steady, truelove -- (a person loved by another person)

Sense 4
love, sexual love, erotic love -- (a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love")
-> sexual desire, eros, concupiscence, physical attraction -- (a desire for sexual intimacy)
=> love, sexual love, erotic love -- (a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love")
=> aphrodisia -- (a desire for heterosexual intimacy)
=> anaphrodisia -- (decline or absence of sexual desire)
=> passion -- (a feeling of strong sexual desire)
=> sensuality, sensualness, sensualism -- (desire for sensual pleasures)
=> amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness, amativeness -- (the arousal of feelings of sexual desire)
=> fetish -- (a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body; "common male fetishes are breasts, legs, hair, shoes, and underwear")
=> libido -- ((psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire)
=> lecherousness, lust, lustfulness -- (a strong sexual desire)
=> nymphomania -- (abnormally intense sexual desire in women)
=> satyriasis -- (abnormally intense sexual desire in men)
=> the hots -- (intense sexual desire)

Sense 5
love -- (a score of zero in tennis or squash; "it was 40 love")
-> score -- (a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0")
=> bowling score -- (the score in a bowling match)
=> football score -- (the score in a football game)
=> baseball score -- (the score of a baseball game)
=> basketball score -- (the score in a basketball game)
=> birdie -- ((golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole)
=> bogey -- ((golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole)
=> deficit -- ((sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing)
=> double-bogey -- ((golf) a score of two strokes over par for a hole)
=> duck, duck's egg -- ((cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman)
=> eagle -- ((golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole)
=> double eagle -- ((golf) a score of three strokes under par on a hole)
=> game -- ((games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win; "the game is 6 all"; "he is serving for the game")
=> lead -- ((sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning)
=> love -- (a score of zero in tennis or squash; "it was 40 love")
=> match -- (the score needed to win a match)
=> par -- ((golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72")

Sense 6
sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life -- (sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life")
-> sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity -- (activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat")
=> bondage -- (sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners)
=> outer course -- (sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration; "since pregnancy cannot happen if sperm are kept out of the vagina, outer course is one method of birth control")
=> safe sex -- (sexual activity (especially sexual intercourse) with the use of measures (such as latex condoms) to avoid the transmission of disease (especially AIDS))
=> conception -- (the act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon)
=> sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge -- (the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur)
=> pleasure -- (sexual gratification; "he took his pleasure of her")
=> sexual love, lovemaking, making love, love, love life -- (sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people; "his lovemaking disgusted her"; "he hadn't had any love in months"; "he has a very complicated love life")
=> carnal abuse -- (any lascivious contact by an adult with the sexual organs of a child (especially not involving sexual intercourse))
=> coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union -- (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring")
=> reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life -- (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)
=> foreplay, arousal, stimulation -- (mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse)
=> perversion, sexual perversion -- (an aberrant sexual practice that is preferred to normal intercourse)
=> autoeroticism, autoerotism -- (using you own body as a sexual object)
=> promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around -- (indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations)
=> lechery -- (unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity)
=> homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness -- (a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex)
=> bisexuality -- (sexual activity with both men and women)
=> heterosexuality, heterosexualism, straightness -- (a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex)