affair

Substantiv

1. 1

   Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.

   a difficult affair to manage

   Responsibility is my affair, reciprocity is his.

   There are a number of issues external to the institution that can influence the fiscal management of student affairs.

2. 2

   Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.

   an affair of honor

   an affair of love

   The house was a ramshackle affair.

   The Creole affair is important because, from the slaves' standpoint, the Creole affair was the most successful slave revolt in American history.

3. 3

   An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.

4. 4

   A material object (vaguely designated).

   He used a hook-shaped affair with a long handle to unlock the car.

   This garden is a ramshackle affair.

   She wore a starched white affair on her head, had a wart on one cheek, and silver-rimmed spectacles hung on the tip of her nose.

   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.

5. 5

   An adulterous relationship, chiefly of a married person. (from affaire de cœur, affair of the heart).

   When Martin's wife found out about his affair with her best friend, she asked for a divorce.

   Mary had an affair with a woman from the gym.

   Andrew Gudmund (from whom I am the seventh in descent) had an affair of the same kind. He also refused to have the child baptised[.]

   "Mean to say you been havin' an affair with Mrs. Peabody?"

6. 6

   An otherwise illicit romantic relationship, such as with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).

   Jerry's girlfriend said she wanted to go steady, but she was in an affair with one of his team-mates.

7. 7

   A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.

   I was his affair and he was a little boy toy to me... Together it was our little scandal.

   Turns out she's married; he was her affair.

   Even though my husband forgave me and gave me another chance, I still continue to see my affair.

   She was my affair, but for me she was everything.

8. 8

   A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.

9. 9

   altertümlichThe (male or female) genitals.

   ... ſhe, with the greateſt effrontery imaginable, unbuttons his breeches, and removing his ſhirt, draws out his affair, ſo ſhrunk and diminiſh’d that I could not but remember the difference, now creſt-fallen, or just faintly lifting its head: but our experinc’d matron very ſoon, by chafing it with her hands, brought it to ſwell to that ſize and erection I had before ſeen it up to.

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affairs