Meaning of first love | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One's first experience of the feeling of romantic love.
   literally
2. The first person to be the object of one's romantic affection.
   broadly
3. The thing, place, or activity of which one is fondest; one's most fundamental interest or attachment.
   broadly, idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Could this be love⟳?—pure, first love⟳ for a shopkeeper's daughter.”

“The common things are terrible and startling, death, for instance, and first love⟳.”

“He thought how he would tell⟳ her . . . that his love⟳ for her had fallen off through his own⟳ unworthiness, and had returned to one who was in all respects less perfect than she, but who in old days, as she well knew, had been his first love⟳.”

“[A]fter I made the personal acquaintance of Mr. Thrall's chef, Anatole, I found my affections dividing themselves between him and his lordship's man Robert, my first love⟳.”

“He had a very strong and faithful attachment for places: Chatham, I think⟳, being his first love⟳ in this respect⟳.”

“Even though he made his millions from refrigerators, radios, scalp exercisers, bed coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love⟳ was always the automobile.”

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