college sweetheart
University love interest
A college sweetheart is a romantic partner from one's university years, often implying the relationship was formative or lasted beyond graduation.
The term carries nostalgic weight, suggesting young love during a pivotal life stage: They married their college sweetheart and have been together thirty years.
Compare high school sweetheart.
- campusInstitutional grounds and buildings
- romanceLove and its excitement
- first loveEarliest romantic attachment
- dormOn-campus student housing
- freshmanFirst-year student
prom · yearbook · cap and gown · graduation · class ring · crush · dating · spring formal · memories · bittersweet · long distance · young love · ring · proposal · marry · love letters · nostalgia · innocence
- exesex, ex-boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, ex-husband, ex-wife
college sweetheartsecond marriage
Union after prior dissolution
childhood sweetheart · rebound relationship · high school sweetheart · office romance
college sweetheartthe one that got away
Romanticized past near-miss
ex · unrequited love · old flame · jilted lover · broken engagement
college sweetheartmail-order bride
Spouse obtained through agencies
marriage of convenience · trophy wife · trophy husband · sugar daddy · sugar baby
college, sweetheart, colleges, collegiate, collegian, collegians, sweet, sweeter, sweetest