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Affair

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Noun

1. affair, matter, thing

a vaguely specified concern

Example Sentences:
'several matters to attend to'
'it is none of your affair'
'things are going well'

2. affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement, liaison

a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

3. affair, function, occasion, social function, social occasion

a vaguely specified social event

Example Sentences:
'the party was quite an affair'
'an occasion arranged to honor the president'
'a seemingly endless round of social functions'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Affair

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noun
1. 
a thing to be done or attended to; matter; business
this affair must be cleared up
2. 
an event or happening
a strange affair
3. (qualified by an adjective or descriptive phrase)
something previously specified, esp a man-made object; thing
our house is a tumbledown affair
4. 
a sexual relationship between two people who are not married to each other

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Affair

see synonyms of affair
noun
1. 
a thing to be done; business
2.  [pl.]
matters of business or concern
3. 
any matter, occurrence, or thing
4. 
a social function or gathering
5. 
an event that becomes a matter of public controversy
6. 
an amorous relationship between two people not married to each other; an amour

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Affair

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n.
1.
a. Something done or experienced; a matter or event: Preparing dessert was a messy affair.
b. A matter of personal concern: What I did is my own affair.
c. A matter causing public scandal and controversy: the Dreyfus affair.
d. A social function: The reception was a posh affair.
2. affairs
a. Transactions and other matters of professional or public business: affairs of state.
b. Personal business: get one's affairs in order.
3. An object or a contrivance: Their first car was a ramshackle affair.
4. A sexual relationship between two people, especially when at least one of them is married or in another committed romantic relationship.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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