Affair

Definition: Affair

Affair

Noun

1. A vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well".

2. A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.

3. A vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "affair" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Affair

Business

Noun: business, occupation, employment; pursuit; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.

Contention

Duel, duello; single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting, digladiation; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms; (warfare).

Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle.

Eventuality

Noun: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent.

Idea

Subject, subject matter; matter, theme, gr/noemata/gr, topic, what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument; motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field of inquiry; moot point, problem; (question).

Love

Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship; amourette; free love.

Crosswords: Affair

This is a strange love affair. (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht)

If I wasn't happily married and you weren't my wife's stepsister I'd have an affair with you in a second (The Object of My Affection; writing credit: Wendy Wasserstein. Based on the novel by Stephen McCauley.)

He never forgave her for having that affair with President Taft (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Are you here for an affair, sir (The Graduate; writing credit: Calder Willingham)

The whole company knows you two are having an affair. (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

And have me a love affair (Love In An Elevator; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Yeah but a love affair for one it can never be (If You Love Me (Let Me Know); performing artist: Elvis Presley)

And ruined your black tie affair ("Friends in Low Places"; performing artist: Garth Brooks)

On this love affair (FAITHFULLY; performing artist: Journey)

And like a long distance love affair soon you've got to pay (Midnight At The Lost & Found; performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Gemini Affair (1974)

The Affair (1973)

An Affair of Honour (1972)

A Current Affair (1971)

Berlin Affair (1970)

Crown Heights Affair (performing artist: Godchildren of Soul)

You Want This / 70's Love Affair (performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Family Affair (performing artist: Mary J Blige)

`65 Love Affair (performing artist: Paul Davis)

Affair Of The Heart (performing artist: Rick Springfield)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry (reference)

• Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair (reference)

• The Game: One Man, Nine Innings: A Love Affair With Baseball (reference)

• Whirlwind Affair (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• An Affair of Love (reference)

• Love Affair (reference)

• An Affair to Remember (reference)

• Holiday Affair (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Marley Family Affair (reference)

• Nu De Lune 2: The Affair (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Fishing - a family affair. Starting a lifelong love affair with fishing at a tender age. Fishing from the seawall at Manasquan Inlet. Credit: Fisheries.

Fishing -- a family affair!. Credit: Fisheries.

Charter vessel (CPFV) REEL AFFAIR anglers looking on as marlin at side of boat. Credit: Fisheries.

A love affair with the sea - surf fishing at Rodanthe. Credit: Fisheries.

AIDS : sex with a stranger could be a deadly affair. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Truly I find small difficulty here, the matter being even a child's affair for simpleness. Credit: Library of Congress.

I do not -- that is not my affair, Your Royal Highness. Credit: Library of Congress.

I've shed tears over this affair -- now kindly give him your ears. Credit: Library of Congress.

Who stole the tarts?] "If I or she should chance to be involved in this affair, ... Credit: Library of Congress.

May have to be a shotgun affair. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were

But the object that most drew my attention, in the mysterious package, was a certain affair of fine red cloth, much worn and faded

On account of the affair.

But he gave me a great account of the whole affair.

Thus by the great friendship of the Secretary, the whole affair was compromised

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

In large measure, ADRD remains a family affair. (references)

Business

When the movie "An Affair to Remember", based on Graham Green's novel of the same name, was released, publishers re-released an updated edition with stills from the movie on the cover. (references)

The love affair that most British homeowners have with their gardens ensures that gardening and outdoor leisure pursuits remain, and will continue to remain, one of Britain's most popular activities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kazakhstan

The Aliyev affair engendered open and in-depth instance of public criticism of the President's immediate family. (references)

Economic History

Denmark

Introducing a new product or company on the Danish market is often a costly affair. (references)

China

U.S. business' romance with China lay dormant for thirty years after WWII, but the love affair was rekindled in the late 1970's when China adopted a policy of "reform and opening up." Since the initiation of that policy, China's economy has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 9% , and the number of foreign firms doing business in or with China has grown exponentially. (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Her uncle had accused her of having an affair with the family's driver. (references)

Nigeria

In August a Shari'a court in Zamfara State sentenced Amina Abdullahi to 100 lashes for having an extramarital affair. (references)

Iran

The UNSR reported in August that the serial murders of late 1998 and early 1999 continued to cause controversy at what is perceived to be as the Government's cover-up of involvement of high-level officials in the affair. (references)

Political Economy

Western Sahara

An attorney for the youths also alleged that the judicial police investigating the affair committed several illegal acts by unlawfully entering homes of the accused and detaining them, torturing them during their detention, and forcing them under duress to sign police reports, which they were not allowed to read and which contained falsehoods. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

Common business practice in Ukraine is to utilize a "closed" bonded warehouse; opening a bonded warehouse is a very complicated affair involving the State Customs Committee, a great deal of paperwork, and possibly organized crime. (references)

Women

Russia

In the latter case, such acts often are not treated as crimes, but rather as a domestic affair. (references)

Worker Rights

Iran

The authorities subsequently charged a judge of the Revolutionary Court in the affair." There were reports that women were trafficked to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the purpose of forced prostitution. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "affair": Affair of honor ♦ affair of honour ♦ affair of state ♦ affair of the heart ♦ be interested in an affair ♦ civil affair ♦ conduct an affair ♦ dull affair ♦ flirtation affair ♦ gala affair ♦ have an affair ♦ have an affair with ♦ hit or miss affair ♦ it was a beery affair ♦ know the inside of an affair ♦ love affair ♦ make an affair of smth. ♦ my affair ♦ settle an affair out of court ♦ social affair ♦ this is no affair of yours ♦ to shelve an affair ♦ trade affair ♦ wanderful affair. Additional references.

Beginning with "affair": affair-as.

Ending with "affair": love-affair.

Afrikaans

saak (business, business deal, case, matter), ding (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

Albanian

punë (affairs, appointment, avocation, berth, business, concern, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, make, making, metier, movement, occupation, office, operation, practice, question, service, shebang, slot, task, task-work, thing, work), problem (business, concern, issue, knot, problem, proposition, question), lidhje dashurie, çështje (business, case, cause, concern, count, issue, matter, point, problem, question, shebang, subject). (various references)

Arabic 

قضية (issue, lawsuit), ‏مسألة (case, issue, matter, problem, proposition, question, thing), ‏قضية (business, case, cause, issue, matter, question), ‏علاقة غرامية (liaison, love affair), ‏أمر (behest, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, direction, enjoin, fiat, give an order, instruct, instruction, intimation, matter, officer, ordain, order, ordinance, prescribe, prescript, prescription, sound, thing, warn, word), ‏باب (chapter, door, entry, field, gate, hatch, issue, kind, matter, port, rubric, section, sort, source, subject). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скандал (blowup, fracas, kick up, row, scandal, scene), работа (avocation, berth, billet, business, char, concern, dealings, do, employ, employment, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, lay, line, matter, occasions, occupation, operation, part, performance, place, ploy, proceedings, proposition, run, running, service, shebang, shop, show, situation, thing, undertaking, work, working, workmanship), въпрос (interrogation, interrogatory, matter, problem, question, subject matter, thing, topic), нещо (anything, aught, do, matter, something, summat, thing), афера (job, jobbery), любовна история (amour, gallantry, love affair, romance, wing-ding), история (anecdote, history, story, tale), дело (act, action, case, cause, deed, file, handiwork, life work, plea, suit). (various references)

Chinese 

事理 (affairs), 事情 (business, matter, thing), 事 (item, matter, thing, work), 務 (business, matter), 勾 (hook, to cancel, to delineate, to reach for). (various references)

Czech

aféra (scandal), záležitost (business, concern, matter, question, thing), vìc (business, case, cause, concern, re, stuff, thing), událost (event, happening, incident, occurrence), pomìr (involvement, proportion, rate, ratio, relation), hraèka (child's play, knick knack, picnic, plaything, pushover, toy, walkover). (various references)

Danish

anliggende (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

Dutch

zaak (boutique, business, business deal, case, matter, shop, store, trade, transaction), ding (article, business, business deal, case, matter, object, thing, thingamajig, whatchamacallit), affaire (business, business deal, case, matter), aangelegenheid (account, business, business deal, case, concern, interest, matter). (various references)

Esperanto

afero (business, business deal, case, matter), kazo (afair, case, matter). (various references)

Faeroese

viðurskifti (business, business deal, case, circumstance, matter, relation), tilburður (business, business deal, case, matter, scene), søk (business, business deal, case, matter), rættarmál (business, business deal, case, matter), mál (aim, business, business deal, case, goal, idiom, language, matter, problem, purpose, speech, target, tongue, trouble), fall (case, fall, matter). (various references)

Farsi 

کاروبار, کار (Act, Activity, Appointment, Avocation, Deed, Duty, Fist, Function, Job, Office, Opus, Ploy, Proposition, Service, Shebang, Task, Thing, Vocation, Work, Workmanship), امر (Authoritative, Circumstance, Imperious, Job, Order, Ordinance, Ploy, Precept). (various references)

Finnish

asia (business, business deal, case, cause, concern, errand, matter, message, thing). (various references)

French

affaire, chose. (various references)

Frisian

affearen (business, business deal, case, matter), oangelegenheid (business, business deal, case, matter), kwestje (business, business deal, case, matter), gefal (case, matter), fal (case, fall, matter). (various references)

German

Angelegenheit (business, business deal, case, concern, issue, matter, pidgin), Sache (article of property, business, business deal, case, cause, concern, job, matter, object, question, subject, thing), Affäre (episode, indiscretion). (various references)

Greek 

υπόθεση (assumption, business, case, cause, concern, conjecture, hypothesis, matter, premise, presumption, shebang, supposition). (various references)

Hebrew 

שעי�" (consideration, look, matter, thought), פרשת א�"בים (love affair), פרש�" (case, charter, episode, history, section), עסק (business, concern, deal, matter, relation, shebang, trade), ע� ין (business, case, concern, context, interest, matter, shebang, stake, subject, thing), �"בר (anything, matter, message, object, saying, something, thing, word), �"רר�" (business, liberty, loss). (various references)

Hungarian

ügy (business, business deal, case, case at issue, cause, go, issue, it is a case in point, matter, proceeding, proposition, shebang, thing, to come out badly of an affair), eset (case, event, incident, instance, occurrence, shebang), esemény (damper, do, episode, event, go, happening, incidence, occasion, occurrence, occurrents), dolog (business, business deal, case, chose, clinker, close call, crackerjack, dishonour, job, labor, labour, lash-up, ledger, matter, mite, number, object, quickie, quicky, shebang, shocker, startler, stuff, the cards were stacked against me, thing, work). (various references)

Indonesian

urusan, pertemuan (assembly, confluence, convoke), peristiwa (event, incident), hubungan gelap. (various references)

Italian

faccenda (business, business deal, case, concern, housework, job, matter, shebang, show), affare (bargain, business, business deal, case, concern, concernment, deal, job, matter, problem, show, snip, thing, transaction), caso (accidence, accident, alternative, case, chance, connection, connexion, event, haphazard, hazard, incident, instance, matter, occasion, occurrence, possibility, random). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

出来事 (event, happening, incident). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎ (be suspicious of, case, ceremony, connection, deception, deed, distrust, doubt, false, falsehood, favor, friendly relations, friendship, goodwill, honour, imitation, intimacy, justice, kindness, lie, matter, morality, relation, righteousness, rule, skill), しろもの (article, fellow, goods, thing), きょく (big frame, channel, climax, culmination, department, extreme, extremity, height, nadir, piece of music, pole, situation, tune, zenith), さた (state), でき�"と (event, happening, incident), �"とがら (circumstance, matter, thing), アフェア , じけ�" (case, event, incident, plot, scandal, trouble). (various references)

Korean 

일 (Day, days, Job, Jobs, Work, Working, workings, works). (various references)

Lombard

affari (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

Malay

perkara (business, business deal, case, matter), hal (case, matter). (various references)

Manx

sooree (court, courtship, go together, love-making, philander; love affair, suit, wooing), cooish cham (intricate affair), cooish (business, case, cause, chat, conversation, love affair, suit, theme). (various references)

Norwegian

anliggende (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

Papiamen

asuntu (business, business deal, case, matter), afèr (business, business deal, case, matter), kos (article, business, business deal, case, matter, object, thing), kestion (business, business deal, case, matter), kaso (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

Pig Latin

affairay.(various references)

Polish

afera (business, business deal, case, matter), sprawa (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

Portuguese

assunto (article, business, business deal, case, concernment, dead set, full stop, material, matter, motif, object, palaver, point, proposition, question, shebang, subject, subject-matter, text, theme, thing, topic), questão (broil, brush, business, business deal, case, difference, disagreement, dissemblance, earmark, fortuity, issue, litigation, matter, proposition, quarrel, query, question, scene, strife, wrangle), negócio (bargain, building, business, business deal, case, concernment, deal, dealing, matter, palaver, thing, trade, trading, transaction), caso (accident, business, business deal, case, colly, event, happening, incident, instance, matter). (various references)

Romanian

afacere (affairs, bargain, business, business deal, case, commerce, concern, deal, dealings, enterprise, go, job, matter, palaver, pennyworth, percentage, show, speculation, tasks, trade, transaction, undertaking). (various references)

Russian 

дело (act, affairs, business, business deal, case, cause, deal, deed, doing, dossier, engagement, file, matter, part, proposition, shebang, thing, transaction, work). (various references)

Scottish

cùis (business, business deal, case, cause, cause : cùis-eagail, matter, subject). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

afera (scandal), sukob (brush, clash, conflict, fray, jar, rencontre), stvar (article, case, cause, matter, object, shebang, subject, thing), posao (business, chore, job, ongoings, transaction, truck, work). (various references)

Spanish

asunto (business, business deal, case, concern, gimmick, issue, item, matter, palaver, subject, thing, topic), particular (apart, business, business deal, case, individual, matter, of one's own, particular, patent, private, private citizen, private person, sectional, separate, special, tutor), caso (case, casual, dossier, fall, instance, matter, notice, occurrence, subject). (various references)

Sranan

afersi (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

Swahili

jambo (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

Swedish

affär (bargain, boutique, business, business deal, business operation, case, commerce, concern, job, matter, proposition, shop, show, store, trade, transaction, venture), sak (article, business, business deal, case, cause, concern, item, job, matter, object, question, subject, thing). (various references)

Tagalog

bagay (business, business deal, case, matter, thing). (various references)

Turkish

mesele (business, business deal, case, crux, hangup, issue, matter, point, problem, proposition, question, Res, shebang, topic). (various references)

Turkmen 

iю (activity, matter, work). (various references)

Ukrainian

історія (anecdote, history, story, yarn), сутичка (affront, bump, bustle, clash, collision, conflict, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, impingement, jostle, mix in, rencontre, rencounter, scramble, scrimmage, scrummage, shock, skirmish, tilt), справа (act, biz, brief, business, case, cause, deed, discipline, employ, enterprise, nevermind, point, proposition, shebang, thing, transaction), справи (acting, affairs, occasion), роман (novel, romance), штука (piece), заняття (affairs, career, engagement, lesson, metier, occupation, profession, pursuit, school, trade, walk, work), бій (action, combat, fight, fighting, operation), пригода (adventure, episode, experience, incidental, occurrence, occurrent), діло (act, cause, deed, employ, engagement, work). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc l� m (act, ado, deed, employment, job, occupation, service), vật (dead, thing), thứ (calibre, order, secondary, sort, stuff, thing, thingamy, thingumajig, thingumbob, thingummy), sự vụ chuyện tình, món, chuyện yêu đương chuyện vấn đề việc buôn bán, đ�" (thing, ware). (various references)

Welsh

achos (as, because, behalf, cause, for, since), mater (matter), helynt (ado, bother, fuss, trouble), busnes (business, case, matter). (various references)

Yucatec

beel (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

Zulu

indaba (business, business deal, case, matter). (various references)

casus, causa, consuetudine, consuetudinem, consuetudines, consuetudinis, consuetudo, res, res rei. (various references)

� faire. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "affair": affaire, affaires, affairs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Affair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afaep, afaik, afair, afari, Afaria, affa, affar, affare, Affari, affear, affer, afffair, affin, affiq, Af-i, Aflaqi, Afori, Aufiria, fafir, fanfair, Raffarin. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: raffia.

-2 letters: afar, aria, fair, fiar, raff, raia, riff.

-3 letters: aff, air, arf, far, fir, iff, ria, rif.

-4 letters: aa, ai, ar, fa, if.

+1 letter: affaire, affairs, raffias.

+2 letters: affaires, paraffin, taffrail.

+3 letters: affraying, affricate, paraffins, rafflesia, taffrails.

+4 letters: affirmable, affirmance, affricates, paraffined, paraffinic, rafflesias, ragamuffin.

+5 letters: affirmances, affirmation, affirmative, affricative, paraffining, ragamuffins, trafficable.