Collocations for love - noun

deep, great, overwhelming, passionate
her deep love for him

genuine, pure, real, true | unconditional | abiding, eternal, undying
He had an abiding love of the English countryside. | You have my undying love.

hopeless, unrequited
a sad tale of unrequited love

thwarted
a play about thwarted love

mutual | free
They were into free love and avoided commitment.

first
I like most sports but tennis is my first love.

brotherly, maternal, parental, sisterly | courtly, platonic, romantic
the cult of courtly love in twelfth-century Aquitaine

erotic, physical, sexual | heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian | redemptive | divine, human

feel, have
She felt no love for him. | He had a great love of life.

search for, seek | find
At last she had found true love.

express, show | declare, profess
They publicly declared their love for each other.

promise
‘You promised me love!’ he cried despairingly.

return
He didn''t return her love.

share
They share a love of music.

give sb, send (sb)
Bob sends his love.

be in, fall in
He fell in love with one of his students.

fall out of | make
(= have sex) It was the first time they had made love. | He wanted to make love to her.

affair | life | letter | scene, song, story

for/out of ~
I did it for love!

in ~
We are very much in love.

~ between
the love between parent and child

~ for
He did not know how to express his love for her.

~ of
She had a great love of painting.

an act of love, deeply/madly/passionately in love
I was madly in love with her.

desperately/hopelessly in love, head over heels in love, love at first sight
Do you believe in love at first sight?

the love of sb''s life
She was the love of his life.