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View synonyms for love affair

love affair

noun

  1. a romantic relationship or episode between lovers; an amour.
  2. an active enthusiasm for something:

    my love affair with sailing.



love affair

noun

  1. a romantic or sexual relationship, esp a temporary one, between two people
  2. a great enthusiasm or liking for something

    a love affair with ballet

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of love affair1

First recorded in 1585–95
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Example Sentences

The second deals with the nature of the love affair that is central to the script.

It's not unrealistic to think they might have had a love affair if he had wanted it or known how to ask.

I begin talking about the nature of the love affair in the script.

Just two days later, the papers began what can only be described as a love affair with Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later Atatürk).

Over time, their potent mentor-mentee relationship evolved into a passionate on-again, off-again love affair.

He was a boy of eighteen, aching over his first love affair; and she was divinely mothering him.

If she had had "some smashing love affair," as the more romantic Flora suggested, so much the better.

In his simple creed if a girl accepted a man and let him kiss her and wore his ring it was a reciprocal love affair.

The primary cause of Tom's abstraction was an open-air preacher, and the secondary cause was, of course, a love affair.

And now I have to give an account of another love-affair which deserves likewise the epithet "serious."

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