first love

noun

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

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The tone shifts, though, becoming myopic and even a little queasy once the film leaves high school behind and heads deeper into the forest, literally and figuratively, a shift that mimics the swoony, woozy, consumptive rush of first love — just what Hardwicke intended to capture. Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025 The story splits its time between young Wash's misadventures and the older, adult Wash's tale of first love with a biracial woman, Tanna (Iola Evans), and a brush with danger in the form of bounty hunter, Willard (Billy Boyd). Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 May 2025 Alongside a group of misfit kids who become his closest friends, young Suchard discovers his extraordinary abilities and learns to harness them for mentalist tricks, solving problems—and perhaps even finding his first love. Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 15 May 2025 Sully finds an innocent sort of first love with a childhood friend. Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2025 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 1 Jun. 2025.

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