affair
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
affair (plural affairs)
- (often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
- a difficult affair to manage
- Synonyms: matter, concern
- Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
- an affair of honor, a duel; an affair of love, an intrigue
- (military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
- A material object (vaguely designated).
- He used a hook-shaped affair with a long handle to unlock the car.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
- An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur).
- A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
- A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
- A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
- (slang, now, rare) The (male or female) genitals.
- 1748, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure:
- [S]he, with the greatest effrontery imaginable, unbuttons his breeches, and removing his shirt, draws out his affair, so shrunk and diminished that I could not but remember the difference, now cresfallen, or just faintly lifting its head.
- 1748, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure:
- German: Angelegenheit
- Italian: affare
- Portuguese: negócio, afazer
- Russian: дела́
- Spanish: negocio
- German: Scharmützel
- Russian: боестолкнове́ние
- French: aventure, liaison
- German: Beziehung, Affäre, Liebesaffäre, Verhältnis, Liebesverhältnis, Liebelei, Liaison, Liebschaft, Liebesangelegenheit, Liebesbeziehung, Liebesabenteuer, Gspusi (mainly Austrian, S. German, coll.)
- Portuguese: caso
- Russian: рома́н
- Spanish: asunto, rollo, amorío, aventura, devaneo, escarceo amoroso, lío de faldas
- Russian: причинда́лы
- Spanish: partes
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