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Meaning of love affair | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An affair; a usually adulterous relationship between people who are not married to each other.
  2. love
  3. A feeling of enthusiasm or strong liking for something; a fondness.

Equivalents

Examples

“He was involved in a love affair with a married woman.”
“"A love affair is an insatiable curiosity over an inscrutable enigma."”
“I've always had a love affair with stamps.”
“And if his love affair with Old Trafford was strained by the saga of his demand to leave earlier this season, the bond was rekindled as United claimed a vital victory.”
“Also in 1955 came the paralysing two-week ASLEF pay strike, which did even more to end the love affair between the railways and its regular customers.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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