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grand passion

noun

  1. an intense or overwhelming attraction or love.
  2. the object of such feelings.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grand passion1

1925–30; translation of French grande passion
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Example Sentences

When he began his blog in 2011, Korotkov never dreamed it would grow into such a grand passion, or lead to trouble with the authorities.

But she was a romantic at heart and her life’s grand passion was literature — worth all the poverty, sacrifice and burned bridges.

Ann, who’s starring in a new opera at Disney Hall, embraces her character’s nightly demise with a grand passion that her audiences find cathartic.

Hong’s grand passion was helping refugees from North Korea.

Ms. Vanderbilt and Stokowski shared a grand passion, according to his biographer, but he could be controlling and emotionally distant.

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