love affair

Definition of love affair

1 : a romantic attachment or episode between lovers

2 : a lively enthusiasm America's love affair with baseball

Synonyms More Example Sentences Learn More about love affair

Keep scrolling for more

Examples of love affair in a Sentence

the tabloids feel obliged to keep us informed of the love affairs of celebrities, whether we care to know or not a group of young men united by their love affair with the muscle car

Recent Examples on the Web America has long carried on a great love affair with technological progress. — Tim Wu, The Atlantic, "How to Stop Innovation From Breaking America," 16 Oct. 2020 My love affair with Audible started several winters ago, when I was stuck inside my house mostly solo and feeling bored out of my mind. — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, "There's still time to secure this Audible deal before Prime Day 2020 ends," 15 Oct. 2020 According to Deadline, the story begins with an encounter between Tom and Patrick in their old age in the 1990s, which spurs them to revisit their love affair 40 years prior. — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, "Harry Styles Is in Talks to Star in My Policeman Film Adaptation," 19 Sep. 2020 Conner has a lifelong love affair with the delta, having grown up nearby. — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, "Shipwrecked on Little Potato Slough," 8 Oct. 2020 Louisa Edwards delivers every Anglophile’s fantasy of meeting the British movie star of one’s dreams and falling irrevocably into a whirlwind love affair. — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, "Hot Stuff: New fall romances range from fluffy to fiery," 5 Oct. 2020 But few fictional themes keep you in a novel’s grip as divertingly as a love affair. — Donna Bulseco, WSJ, "Passionate Page-Turners: Books About Great Love Affairs," 26 Aug. 2020 What begins as an informal apprenticeship transforms into a gripping beachside love affair. — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, "Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet Spark an Aching Beachside Romance in Ammonite," 25 Aug. 2020 Like many people who grew up in Birmingham, Scott Adamson has had a lifelong love affair with football. — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, "New book examines Birmingham’s checkered history with professional football," 29 Sep. 2020

These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'love affair.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Keep scrolling for more

Learn More about love affair

Dictionary Entries near love affair

Statistics for love affair

Last Updated

28 Oct 2020

Cite this Entry

“Love affair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love%20affair. Accessed 31 Oct. 2020.

Keep scrolling for more

WORD OF THE DAY

wraith

Listen to the pronunciation of wraith

See Definitions and Examples »

Get Word of the Day daily email!

Test Your Vocabulary

Here Be Dragons: A Creature Identification Quiz

Which is a synonym of werewolf?

Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words?

Test Your Knowledge - and learn some interesting things along the way.