Definitions for affair

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affair af·fair

Spelling: [uh-fair]

IPA: /əˈfɛər/

Affair is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in affair (aaffir).

Definitions for affair

noun

1. anything done or to be done; anything requiring action or effort; business; concern:
2. affairs, matters of commercial or public interest or concern; the transactions of public or private business or finance:
3. an event or a performance; a particular action, operation, or proceeding:
4. thing; matter (applied to anything made or existing, usually with a descriptive or qualifying term):
5. a private or personal concern; a special function, business, or duty:
6. an intense amorous relationship, usually of short duration.
7. an event or happening that occasions or arouses notoriety, dispute, and often public scandal; incident:
8. a party, social gathering, or other organized festive occasion:

Origin of affair

1250-1300; earlier affaire French, Old French afaire for a faire to do, equivalent to a (Latin ad to) + faire ≪ Latin facere; replacing Middle English afere Old French

Examples for affair

As it was, The affair ended its first season last night with me contemplating hurling my television out of the window.

There are just two episodes to go in The affair, and many portents that things are not going to end well.

In this affair real meanings are rarely conveyed except by silences.

If she wanted to do the sort of thing she was doing, that was her affair.

For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.

Zilch, what with Showtime's other steamy sex-heavy drama, The affair, stealing its thunder.

I thought, the moment I saw you, that you were here for this affair.

But Joe's affair with Sidney had been the talk of the neighborhood.

"My aunt will treat the affair like the sensible woman she is," replied the earl.

Whatever else it qualifies for, The affair is one of the most uncomfortable hours of television of the week.