"affection" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

affection sustantivo

affection + verbo
Kolokacji: 3
Affection goes • affection grows • affection develops
verbo + affection
Kolokacji: 23
show affection • feel affection • win one's affection • express affection • return one's affection • ...
adjetivo + affection
Kolokacji: 61
great affection • deep affection • genuine affection • real affection • mutual affection • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(6) obvious, evident, palpable
Kolokacji: 3
(10) sisterly, brotherly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) lifelong, lasting, enduring
Kolokacji: 3
(12) undying, boundless
Kolokacji: 2
(13) nostalgic, wistful
Kolokacji: 2
1. nostalgic affection = nostalgiczna sympatia nostalgic affection
  • But I have great nostalgic affection for the old reading room and fond associations and memories of it.
  • I felt I could weep with nostalgic affection.
  • He lingers over the city's avenues and railway stations with nostalgic, entrancing affection.
  • It seems that although for many of us the post means little more than bills, and the occasional letter, it retains a certain, undefinable, nostalgic affection.
  • Adults tend to dismiss as worthless much that their children read, while having a nostalgic affection for similar material read in their own childhood.
  • Two hours later, he was going to remember being cold; remember it with nostalgic affection.
  • A gush of nostalgic affection, maybe.
  • It was nostalgic affection, no doubt, that had led him to ask for one of her daughters.
  • Part of it seems almost romantic, a nostalgic affection for the miners as the embodiment of Britain's industrial mythology.
  • The city's residents "retain a nostalgic affection" for it, even though opinion is sharply divided as to the tower's architectural merit.
2. wistful affection = smutna sympatia wistful affection
(14) grudging, tolerant
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + affection
Kolokacji: 13
with affection • of affection • for one's affections • in affection • to affection • ...

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