Definition of "love-affair" []

• A special experience of love; the sum of the incidents having to do with being in love with any person. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Her cries and protests would give way to whimperings and wailings, while the men about laughed at the strangeness of the love-affair between her and the Irish terrier."
• "My love-affair with Egyptology began in the summer of 1998 on an archaeological dig in Israel."
• "I'm thinking about the time I was conducting family therapy at the local children's psychiatric hospital and outside my door the maintenance man was having a show-down with his work love-affair girlfriend who was confronting him."