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May-September romance
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English
Etymology
From the metaphor of a year being the lifespan of a person, May being a time of relative youth and September being late in maturity.
Noun
A romantic relationship where one partner is significantly older than the other.
en The 40-year-old man and his 20-year-old girlfriend were involved in a May-September romance.
weekend Jo Ellison 2025-05-24 The exquisite cringe of the age-gap romance Life & Arts 21 And, any hope for nurturing a May to September-style romance at my age would require me to stalk a geriatric ward.
Synonyms
en May-December romance
See also
autumn romance
December bride
en Love