love affair

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Noun

love affair (plural love affairs)

1. An affair; a usually adulterous relationship between people who are not married to each other.

   He was involved in a love affair with a married woman.

2. A feeling of enthusiasm or strong liking for something; a fondness.

   I've always had a love affair with stamps.

Related terms

• have an affair
• love connection

Translations

• French: affaire de cœur
• German: Liebesabenteuer, Liebesaffäre, Liaison, Techtelmechtel, Seitensprung, Bettgeschichte, Liebschaft, Affäre
• Italian: relazione amorosa, affare di cuore, tresca, legame sentimentale, storia, avventura
• Portuguese: caso
• Russian: рома́н
• Spanish: ligue, escarceo amoroso, aventura, devaneo, affaire ((fem. in Argentina and Uruguay)), lío, rollo, idilio, romance, amorío

Translations

• Italian: passione, predisposizione
• Russian: привя́занность

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