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
“Congratulations mon amour de la vie,” she wrote to Menendez, according to the indictment.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
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
The great problems, I take it, are, first: to stop the war; secondly, to find a solution which will bring independence to Cuba, and at the same time preserve the amour propre to Spain....
From Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft by Oscar S. Straus
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
If the forensically brilliant and hard-minded Trevor-Roper had fallen for him, why not Peters’s many amours?
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2020
When asked how long she plans to avoid amours, Milano replied that she didn’t know.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2019
Miserable about the way his romantic life has turned out, Duncan takes us through the story of all his former amours, a string of rather gorgeous women, including Jane March and Naomie Harris.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2010
That is a rococo tapestry representing the amours of Madame Omphale and Monsieur Hercule.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier
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