first love

noun

: the first person one loves in a romantic way
You never forget your first love.

Examples of first love in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The audience has to believe that these are not just two children caught up in the early days of first love, but that they’re fated by the Gods and the universe to have met and to have died. Trish Deitch, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024 And the film is a study in the community, all the little relationships and the gossipy back-biting things that are happening, the young people having their first love affairs and flirtations and attractions. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024 The leaves and petals of the touch-me-not have been traditionally used by Korean girls and women to dye their fingernails in the summer, and there’s even a superstition that if there’s still some dye left on your fingernails by the time the first snow falls, then your first love will come true. Regina Kim, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024 Starring Gong Myoung, Shin Eun-soo, Cha Woo-min, Youn Sang-hyun and Kang Mi-na, the film explores themes of first love and friendship, centered around a high school student’s quest to confess her feelings to a popular classmate. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for first love 

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“First love.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first%20love. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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