amour

noun/æˈmʊr/

Frequency rank: #12,607 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a love affair, especially one that is secret or illicit.

Illustration for the English word “amour”

Example sentence

She wrote poems about her secret amour that no one else knew about.

Synonyms & related words

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