first love

Definitions

1. 1

   One's first experience of the feeling of romantic love.

   • 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.
2. 2

   The first person to be the object of one's romantic affection.

   • [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.
3. 3

   The thing, place, or activity of which one is fondest

   The thing, place, or activity of which one is fondest; one's most fundamental interest or attachment.

   • 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.

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