Definition of affair

"affair" in the noun sense

1. matter, affair, thing

a vaguely specified concern

"several matters to attend to"

"it is none of your affair"

"things are going well"

2. affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour

a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

3. affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function

a vaguely specified social event

"the party was quite an affair"

"an occasion arranged to honor the president"

"a seemingly endless round of social functions"

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Quotations for affair

A love affair.

An affair of the heart.

An affair of honour (a duel).

The affair is not yet decided.

Love is an affair of credulity. [ Ovid ]

Genius is mainly an affair of energy. [ Matthew Arnold ]

I never whisper'd a private affair
Within the hearing of cat or mouse,
No, not to myself in the closet alone,
But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house;
Everything came to be known. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Perfection is not the affair of the scholar; it is enough if he practises. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To bring nations to surrender themselves to new ideas is not the affair of a day. [ Draper ]

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair. [ Emerson ]

affair in Scrabble®

The word affair is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters affair:

AFFAIR
(48)
RAFFIA
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RAFFIA
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AFFAIR
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word affair

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In affair

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affair in Words With Friends™

The word affair is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters affair:

RAFFIA
(66)
RAFFIA
(66)
AFFAIR
(66)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word affair

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In affair

RAFFIA
(66)
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(66)
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(66)
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Words within the letters of affair

2 letter words in affair (5 words)

3 letter words in affair (3 words)

4 letter words in affair (4 words)

6 letter words in affair (Anagrams) (2 words)

affair + 1 blank (1 word)

affair + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence affair

Words that start with affair (2 words)

Words with affair in them (1 word)

Words that end with affair (1 word)

Word Growth involving affair

Shorter words in affair

ai air fair

fa fair

Longer words containing affair

affairs