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Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.
Ron Chernow

Meaning of "love affair" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOVE AFFAIR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOVE AFFAIR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Love affair is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LOVE AFFAIR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Love Affair

Love Affair may refer to: Films: ▪ Love Affair, starring Dorothy Mackaill and Humphrey Bogart ▪ Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer ▪ Love Affair, featuring Annette Bening, Warren Beatty and Katharine Hepburn ▪ Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator, a 1967 Yugoslav film In music: ▪ Love Affair, a London band formed in 1966 ▪ Love Affair, a 1996 album by Amii Stewart ▪ "Love Affair", a song by Kylie Minogue from Fever...

Definition of love affair in the English dictionary

The definition of love affair in the dictionary is a romantic or sexual relationship, esp a temporary one, between two people. Other definition of love affair is a great enthusiasm or liking for something.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOVE AFFAIR

love
love apple
love bite
love child
love feast
love game
love handles
love hotel
love knot
love letter
love life
love match
love nest
love potion
love scene
love seat
love set
love song
love story
love token

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOVE AFFAIR

affair
barnet fair
bid fair
book fair
craft fair
fair
forfair
funfair
hiring-fair
Mayfair
play fair
trade fair
unfair

Synonyms and antonyms of love affair in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LOVE AFFAIR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «love affair» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of love affair

Translation of «love affair» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOVE AFFAIR

Find out the translation of love affair to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of love affair from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «love affair» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

恋情
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

historia de amor
570 millions of speakers

English

love affair
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रेम प्रसंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

علاقة حب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

роман
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caso de amor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভালবাসার সম্পর্ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

histoire d´amour
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hubungan cinta
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Liebesaffäre
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

情事
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

연애
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Katresnan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tình yêu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காதல் விவகாரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रेम संबंध
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Aşk olayı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

storia d´amore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

romans
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

роман
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poveste de dragoste
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ερωτική σχέση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

liefdesverhouding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kärleksaffär
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kjærlighetsforhold
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of love affair

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOVE AFFAIR»

The term «love affair» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.555 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOVE AFFAIR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «love affair» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «love affair» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about love affair

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10 QUOTES WITH «LOVE AFFAIR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word love affair.
1
Steve Antin
I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.
2
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.
3
Peter Bart
Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.
4
Mario Benedetti
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
5
Bobbi Brown
I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!
6
Joseph Campbell
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
7
Kim Cattrall
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
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Ron Chernow
Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.
9
George Clooney
If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!
10
Francis Ford Coppola
Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOVE AFFAIR»

Discover the use of love affair in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to love affair and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Lifelong Love Affair: How to Have a Passionate and Deeply ...
Lifelong Love Affair is insightful, moving, challenging, and so entertaining. This book is full of wisdom.
Jimmy Evans, Frank Martin, 2012
2
Love Affair
The story takes place on the road in 1950s America and in the mania of Hollywood—a world of jazz clubs, dance halls and onenighters, where lives were lived on a razor’s edge.
Leslie Kenton, 2011
3
Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry
Profiles the film star's collection of jewelry, providing descriptions of her most noteworthy pieces and describing their representation of particular relationships and events in her life.
Elizabeth Taylor, 2002
4
Teenage Love Affair
Needless to say, my days are filled with drama. So this is my story and you need to come and chill with me as I try and see what boy is for me, what love is all about, and if my first teenage love affair will forever rule or ruin my life.
Ni-Ni Simone, 2010
5
Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents
Spanning fifteen years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, "Wanderlust" documents Elisabeth EavesOCOs insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures.
Elisabeth Eaves, 2011
6
Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia's Love Affair with Luxury
This text examines the psychological makeup of a generation, which is prepared to rely on savings and overdrafts to fund their fetish for the cult of the luxury brand.
Radha Chadha, Paul Husband, 2010
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For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and ...
The book explores what makes cities lovable, what motivates ordinary citizens to do extraordinary things for their places and how some cities, such as New Orleans, Detroit, and Cleveland are using that energy to fill in the gaps that ...
Peter Kageyama, 2011
8
Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair -- On-Screen and Off ...
"Sweethearts" is the true story of one of Hollywood's greatest cover-ups: the love affair between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.
Sharon Rich, 2001
9
My Love Affair with England
Now, in My Love Affair with England, Susan Allen Toth shares another aspect of her extraordinary inner life: the quietly passionate side of a woman who has been in love with England for the past thirty years.
Susan Allen Toth, 1994
10
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash
In Garbology, Edward Humes investigates trash—what’s in it; how much we pay for it; how we manage to create so much of it; and how some families, communities, and even nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of ...
Edward Humes, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOVE AFFAIR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term love affair is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bronwyn Bishop's expensive love affair with charter flights began …
Bronwyn Bishop's love affair with charter flights began nearly two decades ago when she was a junior minister in the Howard government, with ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
China's Love Affair With Irresistible Korean TV - The New York Times
BEIJING — China's obsession with a South Korean television show about a 400-year-old Harvard-educated alien who falls in love with an ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Oosthuizen rekindling love affair with St Andrews
ST ANDREWS, Scotland (Reuters) - Louis Oosthuizen wishes the British Open could be played at St Andrews every year and he is probably ... «Yahoo Canada Sports, Jul 15»
4
How British High Society Fell in Love With the Nazis - The Daily Beast
British high society had a 30s love affair with Nazism and Hitler which was in many cases just as profound as that which the German people ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
5
From Cinderella to Carrie Bradshaw, via Run DMC: Why We Just …
... traces millennia of bittersweet, complex relationships between humans and their footwear. PHOTOS: Our Long, Crazy Love Affair With Shoes. «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
6
Tri-State Cruisers celebrate American love affair with cars in Killingly …
Tri-State Cruisers celebrate American love affair with cars. Tri-State Cruisers celebrate the American love affair with cars. Dick Salva leans on ... «Hartford Courant, Jul 15»
7
Oosthuizen rekindling love affair with St Andrews - SuperSport - Golf
Louis Oosthuizen wishes the British Open could be played at St Andrews every year and he is probably not alone after 36 players went sub-70 ... «SuperSport, Jul 15»
8
Golf-Oosthuizen rekindling love affair with St Andrews
ST ANDREWS, Scotland, July 19 (Reuters) - Louis Oosthuizen wishes the British Open could be played at St Andrews every year and he is ... «Yahoo Eurosport UK, Jul 15»
9
A smartphone love affair
aec. Smaller. Larger. Home » aec » A smartphone love affair. A smartphone love affair. Khine Kyaw Myanmar Eleven July 20, 2015 1:00 am ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
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Pregnant Pauses and Other In-between Spaces (My Love Affair With …
semicolon.jpg 6 o'clock every day I cried. Without warning, but right on time. There was never any reason in particular, which is what made it so ... «Education Week, Jul 15»

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