The main goal of this research is to examine all the meanings of the word "love" with derivatives, idiomatic expressions and collocations that contain the word "amore". In this way one can observe all aspects of a word “amore”, all its meanings and the contexts in which it is used, along with the collocations and idioms that make the important part of the Italian language. Taking into account all the dictionaries used we become aware of what the word "love" is and what it could be in contemporary language. Coris, an online corpus, is used along with two subcorpora, “Stampa/Quotidiani” and “Narrativa/Romanzi”, in order to examine the frequency of use of the word "love", its derivatives, idioms and collocations. It is obvious that not all the meanings have relevance in contemporary language, while there are many meanings alongside the basic definitions that make the distinction between two aspects of love, the physical and the emotional one. In addition, the analysis of derivatives, idiomatic expressions and collocations shows their importance and their status in the contemporary Italian language. In conclusion, the lexical and semantic changes occur as a result of historical events and lifestyle changes. Each word passes through the processes of semantic expansion or narrowing of its meaning and thus influences the language changes in general.