love of his life
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3.0
- noun
:
amor de su vida
- What will he do in Act Two, when he meets the love of his life?
- found the love of his life
- met the love of his life
- married the love of his life
And ultimately, I found out after he died that I was the love of his life.
- And ultimately, I found out after he died that I was the love of his life.
- She was the love of his life, he said, but it just wasn't possible to make it work.
- Through all of this, his wife Mari, the love of his life, was there with him and when he was in prison, she waited for him.
- Now, I think my grandfather fell in love in Paris, but the girl he fell in love with was certainly not the love of his life.
- And he talks about the process of moving past that of finding the love of his life and finding the Lord and helping others.
Examples
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Through all of this, his wife Mari, the love of his life, was there with him and when he was in prison, she waited for him.
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Violet, you are certainly the love of his life.
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Your patient died alone, unable to tell the love of his life how he felt.
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"You will never see me again, but as long as I live you will hear me," the boy said to the love of his life.
Fiction book (2001) -
A few weeks later, he told me I was the love of his life and he was dying without me.
Blog text (1) -
Watching my father try to cope with losing the love of his life.
Blog text (31) -
At one time some years back, Louise had been the love of his life, but then she had gone and married someone else.
Fiction book (1991) -
She was the love of his life.
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She became the love of his life, and they were married sixty-three years until her death in 2005.
Academic text (2014) -
He always said that Sarah was the love of his life, and their bond was unbreakable.
Synonyms
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1.1
A husband, wife, or long-term companion in a romantic relationship
772
1.0
A word people use to address someone they care about, like dear
310
1.3
A person you care about deeply, like a family member or close friend
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3.4
A person you feel a deep, natural connection with as a close friend or romantic partner
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9.1
A person you love as a romantic partner
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3.2
The person someone loves most and wants to spend their life with
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7.8
A woman who is a man's sweetheart
A person someone cares for deeply and wants to be with
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning is compositionally derivable from its parts: 'love' (affection/cherished person) + 'of his life' (within the span of his life), yielding 'the person he loves most.' This construction (e.g. Spanish 'amor de su vida', French 'l'amour de sa vie') is cross-linguistically common and follows a standard possessive-of pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the words will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Love of his life creates a simple picture: one person is the true love at the center of someone's life, the person who fills their days with meaning and joy. So it means 'the person who is most important as a romantic partner'.