Amour
[ə'mʊə] or [ə'mʊr]
Definition
(n.) Love; affection.
(n.) Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.
Checker: Melva
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Affair of gallantry, love intrigue, love affair.
Editor: Percival
Definition
n. a love intrigue or illicit affection: a love affair (humorously only for the old innocent sense is now obsolete).—n. Amourette′ a petty love affair: the love-grass or quaking-grass: a cupid.—Amour propre self-esteem ready to take offence at slights.
Editor: Maggie
Examples
- Je ne saurais vous dire 'how;' mais, enfin, les Anglais ont des idées à eux, en amitié, en amour, en tout. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Shirley has hurt your _amour propre_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She is always mighty gentle with her young baronet, mighty tender for his feelings, forsooth, and of his very thin-skinned _amour propre_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You will spoil all, destroy the mirth of the piece, the enjoyment of the company, sacrifice everything to your _amour-propre_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A constant crusade against the amour-propre of every human being but himself, was the crotchet of this able, but fiery and grasping little man. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- L'amour, l'amore, die Liebe--I detest it in every language. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is against my vow to love any maiden, otherwise than 'par amours', as I will love thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The music plays Dormez, dormez, chers Amours. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Lola