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Meaning of affair

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  affair
      n 1: a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend
           to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
           [syn: {matter}, {affair}, {thing}]
      2: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn:
         {affair}, {affaire}, {intimacy}, {liaison}, {involvement},
         {amour}]
      3: 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" [syn: {affair},
         {occasion}, {social occasion}, {function}, {social function}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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