love at first sight Definition

love
verb loved, loving

1a. To feel great affection for (especially a close relative, friend, etc);

Thesaurus: adore, cherish, delight in, dote on, prize, adulate, idolize, worship, treasure; Antonym: dislike.
1b. To feel great affection and sexual attraction for (especially a sexual partner, a person one is romantically involved with, etc).
2a. To enjoy very much;

Example: I love to boogie
2b. To like very much.

Example: I love chocolate biscuits

noun

1. A feeling of great affection.

Example: brotherly love
Thesaurus: adoration, adulation, devotion, fondness, affection, attachment, delight; Antonym: hatred, aversion.
2. A strong liking.

Example: a love of the outdoors
3. Sexual attraction.
4. Relating or referring to love, romance, sexual relations, etc.

Example: love letters
5a. Often used as a term of address: to a person one loves;

Example: my love
(Brit)
5b. colloq
Often used as a term of address: to anyone regardless of affection.
5. tennis.squash.whist.
No score.

Idiom: fall in love with someone

To develop feelings of love and sexual attraction for them.

Idiom: in love (in love with someone)

Having strong feelings of affection and sexual attraction (for them).

Idiom: love at first sight

Instant sexual attraction.

Idiom: make love to someone (make love with someone)

To be sexually intimate with them, especially when this culminates in sexual intercourse.
Thesaurus: copulate, sleep with, go to bed with, screw (slang).

old use
To woo.

Idiom: not for love or money

Under no circumstances.

Idiom: no love lost between (two or more people)

Mutual dislike.
Example: Since the divorce, there's no love lost between them

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon lufu.