Love-affair definition

An intimate sexual relationship or episode between lovers.
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An amorous or romantic relationship or episode between two people not married to each other.
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A strong enthusiasm.

America's love affair with the automobile.

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The definition of a love affair occurs when two people become romantically and often sexually involved, and when the two people adore and are infatuated with each other.

An example of a love affair is when a boy and girl meet and begin to desire each other, spending a lot of time together and engaging in romantic and sexual behavior.

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An intense or eager interest in something.
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An affair; an adulterous relationship. Used colloquially to distinguish which type of affair, leaving less room for doubt.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
love-affair
Plural:
love-affairs

Love-affair Sentence Examples

  • The romance of his love affair with Sarah Curran - who afterwards married Robert Henry Sturgeon, an officer distinguished in the Peninsular War - has cast a glamour over the memory of Robert Emmet; and it inspired Thomas Moore's well-known songs, "She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps," and "Oh, breathe not his name"; it is also the subject of Washington Irving's "The Broken Heart."

  • He had a serious love affair about this time, which was broken off on the very eve of marriage by his catching a tertian fever which defied all attempts at cure for some two years.

  • From that moment the love affair becomes almost impossibly fraught.

  • Meets Vita Sackville-West with whom she has a brief love affair.

  • It was a great love affair.

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