(luv) noun
1. A strong, complex emotion or feeling causing one to appreciate, delight in, and crave the presence or possession of another and to please or promote the welfare of the other; devoted affection or attachment.
2. Specifically, such feeling between husband and wife or lover and sweetheart.
3. One who is beloved; a sweetheart.
4. Sexual passion, or the gratification of it.
5. A very great interest or fondness: love of learning.
6. In tennis, a score of nothing.
—for the love of For the sake of; in loving remembrance of: used in adjurations, solemn oaths, etc.
—for love or money For any consideration; under any circumstances.
—in love Experiencing love; enamored.
—no love lost between No affection or liking between.
—v. loved, lov·ing v.t.
1. To feel love or affection for.
2. To take pleasure or delight in; like very much.
3. To caress.
—v.i.
4. To feel love, especially for one of the opposite sex; be in love. See synonyms under ADMIRE, LIKE. [OE lufu] Synonyms (noun): affection, attachment, attraction, charity, devotion, esteem, feeling, fondness, friendship, liking, passion, regard, tenderness. Affection is kindly feeling, deep, tender, and constant, going out to some person or object, being less fervent and ardent than love. Love is the yearning or outgoing of soul toward something that is regarded as excellent, beautiful, or desirable; love may be briefly defined as strong and absorbing affection for and attraction toward a person or object. Love is more intense, absorbing, and tender than friendship, more intense, impulsive, and perhaps passionate than affection; we speak of fervent love, but of deep or tender affection, or of close, firm, strong friendship. Love is used specifically for personal affection between the sexes, and can never properly denote mere animal passion, which is expressed by such words as appetite, desire, lust. One may have love for animals, inanimate objects, or for abstract qualities that enlist the affections, as we speak of love for a horse or a dog, for mountains, woods, ocean, or of love of nature, and love of virtue. Love of articles of food is better expressed by liking, as love, in its full sense, denotes something spiritual and reciprocal, such as can have no place in connection with objects that minister merely to the senses. See ATTACHMENT, FRIENDSHIP. Antonyms: see synonyms for ANTIPATHY, ENMITY, HATRED.

(luv)
A personification of love; Cupid or Eros.