love affair
a romantic relationship or episode between lovers; an amour.
an active enthusiasm for something: my love affair with sailing.
Origin of love affair
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How to use love affair in a sentence
The second deals with the nature of the love affair that is central to the script.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt's not unrealistic to think they might have had a love affair if he had wanted it or known how to ask.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI begin talking about the nature of the love affair in the script.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJust two days later, the papers began what can only be described as a love affair with Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later Atatürk).
The 20th-Century Dictator Most Idolized by Hitler | William O’Connor | November 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOver 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.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodIf she had had "some smashing love affair," as the more romantic Flora suggested, so much the better.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonIn 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 Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartThe primary cause of Tom's abstraction was an open-air preacher, and the secondary cause was, of course, a love affair.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward WhiteAnd now I have to give an account of another love-affair which deserves likewise the epithet "serious."
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick Niecks
British Dictionary definitions for love affair
a romantic or sexual relationship, esp a temporary one, between two people
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
Other Idioms and Phrases with love affair
An intimate sexual relationship, as in They had a torrid love affair many years ago. This expression dates from about 1600, when it referred merely to the experiences connected with being in love. The current sense dates from the second half of the 1800s.
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