|
|
1. (n.) affair
anything requiring action or effort; business; concern.
2. affair
affairs, matters of commercial or public interest or concern:
affairs of state.
3. affair
thing; matter (usu. used with a descriptive or qualifying term):
Our new computer is a complex affair.
4. affair
a private or personal concern:
That's none of your affair.
5. affair
a usu. brief amorous relationship.
6. affair
an incident that occasions notoriety, dispute, and often public scandal:
the Congressional bribery affair.
7. affair
a social gathering or other organized festive occasion.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME afere < OF afaire, for a faire to do =a (< L ad to) +faire&indirdesc; L facere)
|
| Definition of 'affair' |
Princeton's WordNet |
|
1. (noun) matter, affair, thing
a vaguely specified concern
"several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
2. (noun) affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour
a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
3. (noun) affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function
a vaguely specified social event
"the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
|
|
|
1. affair
a love relationship with sb who is not your partner
She found out her husband was having an affair.
2. affair
an unpleasant set of events
embarrassed by the whole affair
|
| Definition of 'affair' |
Webster Dictionary |
|
1. (noun) affair
that which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius
2. (noun) affair
any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue
3. (noun) affair
an action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle
4. (noun) affair
action; endeavor
5. (noun) affair
a material object (vaguely designated)
|
|
|
Sense: happenings etc which are connected with a particular person or thing
the Suez affair.
|
 Afrikaans: kwessie |
 Arabic: مَسْأله، قَضِيَّه |
 Bulgarian: въпрос |
 Brazilian: caso |
 Czech: aféra |
 German: die Affäre |
 Danish: sag; begivenhed; affære |
 Greek: υπόθεση |
 Spanish: caso |
 Estonian: afäär |
 Farsi: کار و بار |
 Finnish: tapaus |
 French: affaire |
 Hebrew: עִנְייָן, פָּרָשָה, אֵירו |
 Hindi: मामला |
 Croatian: posao |
 Hungarian: ügy |
 Indonesian: peristiwa |
 Icelandic: mál, málefni |
 Italian: caso |
 Japanese: 事件 |
 Korean: 사건 |
 Lithuanian: atsitikimas, istorija |
 Latvian: lieta; darīšana |
 Malay: hubungan |
 Dutch: zaak |
 Norwegian: sak, begivenhet, affære |
 Polish: sprawa, kwestia |
 Persian: کار و بار |
 Pashto: معاملی، کار او بار |
 Portuguese: caso |
 Romanian: afacere |
 Russian: дело |
 Slovak: aféra |
 Slovenian: zadeva |
 Serbian: afera |
 Swedish: affär |
 Thai: เหตุการณ์ |
 Turkish: sorun |
 Taiwanese: 事件 |
 Ukrainian: справа, діло |
 Urdu: کام ، چھوٹی لڑائی |
 Vietnamese: sự việc |
 Chinese: 事件，事情 |
Get even more translations for affair...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Alternative search options for 'affair' |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Definitions of affair 
