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affair
English
Alternative forms
- affaire (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English afere, affere, from Old French afaire, from a- + faire (“to do”), from Latin ad- + facere (“to do”). See fact, and confer ado.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??f??/
- (otherwise) (US) IPA(key): /??f??(?)/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??f??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
affair (plural affairs)
- (often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
- Synonyms: matter, concern
- Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
- (military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
- A material object (vaguely designated).
- 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.
- An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur).
- A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
- A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
- A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
- (slang, now rare) The (male or female) genitals.
- 1748, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure:
- [S]he, with the greatest effrontery imaginable, unbuttons his breeches, and removing his shirt, draws out his affair, so shrunk and diminished that I could not but remember the difference, now cresfallen, or just faintly lifting its head.
- 1748, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure:
Translations
See also
- liaison
References
- affair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- raffia
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English affair, from French affaire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?fe?/, [a?fe?]
Noun
affair m (plural affaires)
- affair (extramarital relationship)
- Synonym: aventura
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emergence
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French émergence. See also emergency.
Morphologically emerge +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??m??d?(?)ns/
Noun
emergence (countable and uncountable, plural emergences)
- The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprising or appearance.
- In particular: the arising of emergent structure in complex systems.
- (obsolete) An emergency.
- 1812, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 452:
- I […] had recourse to an English Merchant, Mr Gregory, long settled at Dunkirk, to whom, happily, I had been recommended, as to a person capable, in any emergence, to afford me assistance.
- 1812, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 452:
Related terms
- emerge
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- eclosion
References
- emergence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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