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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
love affair
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a passionate love affair
▪ America's love affair with the automobile
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He realised that Marion's reticence was to protect the secret of her love affair with Ronald Travis.
▪ She hoped Angus wanted to rekindle their love affair, as she did.
▪ So one should enter the myth dimension as one embarks upon a love affair.
▪ The love affair gave him new life, he looked better, drank less and stayed away from the cafés.
Wiktionary
love affair

n. 1 An affair; an adulterous relationship. Used colloquially to distinguish which type of affair, leaving less room for doubt. 2 A fondness

WordNet
love affair

n. a relationship between two lovers [syn: romance]

Wikipedia
Love Affair (1939 film)
Love Affair (1994 film)

Love Affair is a 1994 romantic drama film, and a remake of the 1939 film of the same name. It was directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and produced by Warren Beatty from a screenplay by Robert Towne and Beatty, based on the 1939 screenplay by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart, based on the story by Mildred Cram and Leo McCarey. The music score was by Ennio Morricone and the cinematography by Conrad L. Hall.

The film stars Beatty, Annette Bening and Katharine Hepburn in her last film role, with Garry Shandling, Chloe Webb, Pierce Brosnan, Kate Capshaw, Paul Mazursky and Brenda Vaccaro.

Love Affair

A love affair is a form of romantic relationship. Love Affair may refer to:

Films:

  • Love Affair (1932 film), starring Dorothy Mackaill and Humphrey Bogart
  • Love Affair (1939 film), starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer
  • Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator, a 1967 Yugoslav film
  • Love Affair (1994 film), featuring Annette Bening, Warren Beatty and Katharine Hepburn
  • The Love Affair (film), a 2015 film
  • Love Affair (2016 film), an upcoming Indian film

In music:

  • Love Affair (band), a London band formed in 1966
  • Love Affair (album), a 1996 album by Amii Stewart
  • "Love Affair", a song by Kylie Minogue from Fever
Love Affair (album)

Love Affair is a studio album by Amii Stewart released in 1996.

Love Affair (1932 film)

Love Affair is a 1932 American Pre-Code romantic drama film starring Dorothy Mackaill as an adventurous socialite and Humphrey Bogart as the airplane designer she falls for. It is based on the short story of the same name by Ursula Parrott.

Love Affair (band)

Love Affair was a London-based pop, soul, R&B group formed in 1966. The group had several UK Singles Chart Top 10 hits, including the number one success, " Everlasting Love".

Love Affair (2016 film)

Love Affair is an upcoming Indian Bollywood biographical film directed by Soni Razdan under the T-Series and Fish Eye Network Pvt Ltd banners. The principal photography of the film commenced in January 2016.

Usage examples of "love affair".

It had nothing to do with the rapturous start to a love affair–.

It had nothing to do with the rapturous start to a love affair---those days and weeks before the first tiny tear-clouds appear on the horizon.

After seven years all that remained of his haunting love affair with Joy was hatred.

Obviously Rachel feared one thing above all elsethat her parents would learn about her pathetic love affair.