English Reference

Idiom

affair Partner

Meaning

A person with whom one is having an extramarital or unfaithful relationship; the third party in an affair.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He left his wife for his affair partner.”

“The scandal broke when the press photographed the politician meeting his affair partner at a hotel.”

“The discovery of the secret correspondence revealed that he had been maintaining a long-term relationship with his affair partner for several years.”

Examples

simple

“He left his wife for his affair partner.”

contextual

“The scandal broke when the press photographed the politician meeting his affair partner at a hotel.”

complex

“The discovery of the secret correspondence revealed that he had been maintaining a long-term relationship with his affair partner for several years.”

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