love affairnoun
uk/ˈlʌv əˌfeər/us/ˈlʌv əˌfer/[ C ] a romantic and sexual relationship between two people who are not married to each other
[ S ] a strong liking for a particular activity or place:
Her love affair with ballet began when she was ten.
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Marriage, cohabitation & other relationships
- adulteress
- affinal
- as husband and wife idiom
- be an item idiom
- be shacked up idiom
- hear wedding bells idiom
- hitched
- honest
- husband
- intermarriage
- marriage equality
- marriage guidance
- marriageable
- marry
- marry in haste, repent at leisure idiom
- matrimonial
- shack up
- something
- together
- wedlock
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