Affair Definition

ə-fâr
affairs
noun
affairs
Something done or experienced; a matter or event.
Preparing dessert was a messy affair.
American Heritage
A thing to be done; business.
Webster's New World
A matter of personal concern.
What I did is my own affair.
American Heritage
Matters of business or concern.
Webster's New World
A matter causing public scandal and controversy.
The Dreyfus affair.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Affair

Noun

Singular:
affair
Plural:
affairs

Origin of Affair

  • Middle English affaire from Old French afaire from a faire to do a to (from Latin ad ad–) faire to do (from Latin facere dhē- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English afere, affere, from Old French afaire, from a- + faire (“to do”); Latin ad- + facere to do. See fact, and confer ado.

    From Wiktionary

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