Usually means: Romantic relationship outside of marriage.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word affair:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. affair: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. affair: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affair: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affair: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affair: Vocabulary.com
  6. Affair, affair: Wordnik
  7. affair: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. affair: Wiktionary
  9. affair: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. affair: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. affair: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Affair, affair: Dictionary.com
  13. affair: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. affair: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Affair (album), Affair (disambiguation), Affair (film), Affair, The Affair (Child novel), The Affair (Snow novel), The Affair (TV series), The Affair (play), The Affair, The affair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Affair: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. affair: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. affair: Rhymezone
  19. affair: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. affair: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. affair: Free Dictionary
  22. affair: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. affair: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. affair: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. affair: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affair: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affair: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affair: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  3. affair: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. affair, affair: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. affair: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
noun:  Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
noun:  (military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
noun:  A material object (vaguely designated).
noun:  An adulterous relationship, chiefly of a married person. (from affaire de cœur, affair of the heart).
noun:  An otherwise illicit romantic relationship, such as with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
noun:  A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
noun:  A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
noun:  (slang, now rare) The (male or female) genitals.

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