love affair (plural love affairs )
An affair ; a usually adulterous relationship between people who are not married to each other.
He was involved in a love affair with a married woman.
A feeling of enthusiasm or strong liking for something; a fondness .
I've always had a love affair with stamps.
2011 February 12, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 2 - 1 Man City”, in BBC [1] :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.
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL , number 978 , page 53 :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.
adulterous relationship
Arabic: عَلَاقَة غَرَامِيَّة f ( ʕalāqa ḡarāmiyya )
Belarusian: рама́н m ( ramán ) , любо́ўная су́вязь f ( ljubóŭnaja súvjazʹ )
Bulgarian: любо́вна връ́зка f ( ljubóvna vrǎ́zka )
Chinese:
Mandarin: ( illicit ) 偷香竊玉 / 偷香窃玉 (zh) ( tōuxiāngqièyù ) , ( romantic ) 風流韻事 / 风流韵事 (zh) ( fēngliúyùnshì ) , 外遇 (zh) ( wàiyù ) , 私情 (zh) ( sīqíng )
Danish: kærlighedsaffære c , affære (da) c
Esperanto: amafero , amaĵo , amintrigo
Estonian: armuafäär
Faroese: fjas
Finnish: rakkausseikkailu , rakkausjuttu , rakkaussuhde (fi)
French: aventure (fr) f , liaison (fr) f
German: Liebesabenteuer (de) n , Liebesaffäre (de) f , Liaison (de) f , Techtelmechtel (de) n , Seitensprung (de) m , Bettgeschichte (de) f , Liebschaft (de) f , Affäre (de) f
Greek: ερωτοδουλειά (el) f ( erotodouleiá )
Hungarian: szerelmi viszony (hu) , szívügy (hu)
Icelandic: ástarævintýri n
Italian: relazione amorosa f , affare di cuore m , tresca (it) f , legame sentimentale m , storia (it) f , avventura (it) f
Japanese: 情事 (ja) ( じょうじ, jōji ) , 色恋沙汰 ( いろこいざた, irokoizata ) , 色恋 (ja) ( いろこい, irokoi ) , ラブアフェア ( rabu afea ) , 不倫 (ja) ( ふりん, furin )
Korean: 러브 어페어 ( reobeu eopeeo ) , 정사(情事) (ko) ( jeongsa ) , 연애 사건 (戀愛事件) ( yeonae sageon ) , 련애 사건 (戀愛事件) ( ryeonae sageon ) ( North Korea ) , 불륜(不倫) ( bullyun )
Latin: amōrēs (la) m pl , cōnsuētūdō f
Latvian: attiecības f pl
Lithuanian: meilės santykis m
Macedonian: љубовна врска f ( ljubovna vrska ) , афе́ра f ( aféra )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kjærlighetsaffære m
Nynorsk: kjærleiksaffære
Polish: romans (pl) m
Portuguese: caso (pt) m
Russian: рома́н (ru) m ( román ) , любовное похожде́ние n ( ljubovnoje poxoždénije ) , любо́вная интри́га f ( ljubóvnaja intríga ) , любо́вная связь f ( ljubóvnaja svjazʹ ) , ( hanky-panky ) шу́ры-му́ры (ru) f pl ( šúry-múry ) , ша́шни (ru) m pl ( šášni ) , аму́ры (ru) m pl ( amúry )
Spanish: ligue (es) m , escarceo amoroso , aventura (es) f , devaneo (es) m , affaire (es) m ( (fem. in Argentina and Uruguay) ) , lío (es) m , rollo (es) m , idilio (es) m , romance (es) m , amorío (es) m , embullo (es) m ( Dominican Republic )
Swedish: kärleksaffär c , affär (sv) c , förhållande (sv) n
Ukrainian: рома́н m ( román ) , любо́вний зв'язо́к m ( ljubóvnyj zvʺjazók )