Love noun: 1. a strong or passionate affection for another person. 2. an object of love or affection; a sweetheart. 3. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a friend (or between friends), parent, child, etc. 4. strong predilection or liking for anything. Jeanne, Rube, Christo and Isabel. Four friends. Four different lives. Four ways to love.