1. Feeling or showing love and affection
   "loving parents"; "loving glances"

1. Have a great affection or liking for
   "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him"
    
2. Be enamoured or in love with
   "She loves her husband deeply"
    
3. Derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in
   "I love cooking";
   - enjoy, bask, relish, savor [US], savour [Brit, Cdn]
    
4. Have sexual intercourse
   "they loved in the back of the car"; "they made love in the back of the car";
   - sleep together, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it [informal], be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed [informal], get it on [informal]

See also: adoring, affectionate, amative, amatory, amorous, attached, besotted, captivated, charmed, clingy, committed, doting, enamored [US], enamoured [Brit, Cdn], fond, idolatrous, in love, infatuated, lovable, loveable [rare], loverlike, loverly, lovesome [archaic], lovestruck [informal], overfond, passionate, potty [Brit, informal], romantic, smitten, soft on [informal], taken with, tender, tenderhearted, tender-hearted, touchy-feely [informal], uxorious, warmhearted, warm-hearted

Type of: copulate, couple, experience, feel, like, mate, pair

Antonym: detest, unloving

Encyclopedia: Loving, Oklahoma