amour
Americannoun
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amours
plural
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a love affair.
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an illicit or secret love affair.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of amour
1250–1300; Middle English < Middle French, Old French amo ( u ) r, representing a dial. form or < Old Provençal < Latin amōrem accusative of amor love, equivalent to am ( āre ) to love + -or -or 1; cf. amoretto
Example Sentences
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Stripping away the amour propre of a nuclear-armed potentate is a dangerous business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
The charge-sheet said that after the couple received the car, Mrs Menendez texted her husband to say: "Congratulations mon amour de la vie, we are the proud owners of a 2019 Mercedes."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2023
“Congratulations mon amour de la vie, we are the proud owners of a 2019 Mercedes,” Nadine Menendez texted her husband, along with a heart emoji.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
"Happy birthday, Sophie. From this, to this, and everything in between, there’s no one I’d rather have by my side… I love you, mon amour."
From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2023
The amour of the brothers with the San Roque girl was known, and also the well-founded jealousy of the patron, who at first endeavoured to obtain the engine-driver’s discharge by the means already mentioned.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
Nos amours, the good people of Montreal called their team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The music you hear is contemporary with Irène's life, so Charles Trenet's song "Que reste-e-il de nos amours?" is one he wrote prior to 1942, so it would be contemporary.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2023
When asked how long she plans to avoid amours, Milano replied that she didn’t know.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2019
Their amours are aided by the mischief of friends and kin — Reed Diamond’s Don Pedro is especially fine — who recognize the desire lurking behind the anti-couple’s ostentatious contempt for each other.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
I, sinner as I am, and uncharitably reviled by your highness as an accomplice of I know not what amours, scorn the allurements with which it has pleased thee to tempt mine honesty.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
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