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old flames

old flames is the plural of old flame.

Meaning of old flame

Noun

old flame (plural old flames)

  1. (idiomatic) A previous boyfriend or girlfriend; a former romantic or sexual partner, especially one for whom one still has romantic feelings.
    • There once lived, in a sequestered part of the county of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby: a worthy gentleman, who, taking it into his head rather late in life that he must get married, and not being young enough or rich enough to aspire to the hand of a lady of fortune, had wedded an old flame...1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC

Questions about old flames

What is old flames the plural of?
Old flames is the plural of old flame.

Words near old flames in the dictionary

  1. Old Fig Garden
  2. old finger
  3. old fingers
  4. Old Firm
  5. old flame
  6. old flames
  7. old fogey
  8. old fogies
  9. old fogy
  10. old folks
  11. old folks home

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