first love
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.64 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The first person to be the object of one's romantic affection.
noun
The thing, place, or activity of which one is fondest; one's most fundamental interest or attachment.
Example Sentences
- "Could this be love?—pure, first love for a shopkeeper's daughter."
- "The common things are terrible and startling, death, for instance, and first love."
- "He thought how he would tell her . . . that his love for her had fallen off through his own unworthiness, and had returned to one who was in all respects less perfect than she, but who in old days, as she well knew, had been his first love."
- "[A]fter I made the personal acquaintance of Mr. Thrall's chef, Anatole, I found my affections dividing themselves between him and his lordship's man Robert, my first love."
- "He had a very strong and faithful attachment for places: Chatham, I think, being his first love in this respect."
- "Even though he made his millions from refrigerators, radios, scalp exercisers, bed coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love was always the automobile."