Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - love affair

(love affairs) 1. A love affair is a romantic and usually sexual relationship between two people who love each other but who are not married or living together. ...a stressful love affair with a married man. = relationship N-COUNT: oft N with/between n 2. If you refer to someone’s love affair with something, you mean that they like it a lot and are very enthusiastic about it. ...the American love affair with firearms... N-SING: with supp, usu N with n