loved ones, darlings, loves, romantic partners
Estes meninos são uns amores, uns amores.
These boys are absolute sweethearts, absolute sweethearts.
— Vale Abraão (1993)
I'm not exactly crazy about it either.
César, os romanos, por quem eu não morro de amores, aliás.
Caesar, the Romans, for whom I don't particularly like, by the way.
— Astérix e Obélix: Missão Cleópatra (2002)