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Princeton's WordNet

  1. love affair, romancenoun

    a relationship between two lovers

Wiktionary

  1. love affairnoun

    An affair; an adulterous relationship. Used colloquially to distinguish which type of affair, leaving less room for doubt.

  2. love affairnoun

    A fondness

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  1. love affair

    A love affair is a romantic or sexual relationship between two people, especially one that involves intense emotion, passion, and is often illicit. This could be outside of marriage or a committed relationship, and it is often characterized by its secrecy. It can also simply imply a strong enthusiasm or liking for something.

Wikidata

  1. Love Affair

    Love Affair is a 1939 American romantic film starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer and featuring Maria Ouspenskaya. It was directed by Leo McCarey and written by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, based on a story by McCarey and Mildred Cram. Love Affair was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Writing, Original Story, Best Original Song, and Best Art Direction. The film was remade by McCarey in 1957 as An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in the lead roles, using a very similar screenplay, and by Glenn Gordon Caron in 1994 as Love Affair, starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and, in her last feature film appearance, Katharine Hepburn. A 1999 Bollywood movie, Mann, was made based on the same storyline.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of love affair in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of love affair in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of love affair in a Sentence

  1. Sir Thomas More:

    Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

  2. Arnold Daly:

    Golf is like a love affair if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun. If you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.

  3. Mignon McLaughlin:

    We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

  4. Eva Longoria:

    My love affair with cooking started long ago.

  5. George Bernard Shaw:

    The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.


Translations for love affair

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  • علاقة غراميةArabic
  • LiebesabenteuerGerman
  • ligueSpanish
  • rakkausseikkailu, rakkaussuhde, rakkausjuttuFinnish
  • love affair, affaire de cœurFrench
  • love affairItalian
  • 不倫, 色恋沙汰, ラブアフェア, 情事Japanese
  • 정사, 러브 어페어, 연애 사건, 불륜Korean
  • cōnsuētūdōLatin
  • kjærlighetsaffæreNorwegian
  • caso de amorPortuguese
  • роман, шуры-муры, любовная интрига, любовное похождениеRussian
  • เรื่องรัก ๆ ใคร่ ๆThai
  • 恋爱关系Chinese

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