first love

noun

: the first person one loves in a romantic way

You never forget your first love.

Examples of first love in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Martin Margiela was my first love in fashion—my first designer love. — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026

Fee remains haunted by his first love for Peter, which exerts a power over his life that feels like fate. — Garth Greenwell, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026

But when his best friend Lloyd (Bergen) invites Eddie’s first love and former camp sweetheart Erin (Cohan) to the bachelor weekend, the reunion becomes a reckoning with old relationships, unresolved love and the question of what might have been. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026

But after a stint in the minors with the Chicago White Sox organization at age 31 — facilitated by Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who also owned the MLB franchise — the star guard returned to his first love. — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for first love

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• of
• shove
• hereinabove