affair
/əˈfɛː/
US pronunciation
American sound/əˈfɛː/
əˈfɛː
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final r is pronounced in US English
ə - ˈfɛː -> affair
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
၁။ [sing] အရေး။ ကိစ္စ။ အလုပ်။ It's not my affair (ie I am not interested in or responsible for it).
၂။ affairs [pl] (က) ကိစ္စ။ put one's affairs in order. (ခ) ရေးရာ။ current/ foreign/ world affairs.
၃။ [C esp sing ] (က) အရေးအခင်း။ the Suez affair ❍ We must try to forget this sad affair. ❍ The press exaggerated the whole affair wildly. (ခ) ပွဲ။ အခမ်းအနား။ The wedding was a very grand affair.
(ဂ) [C] (infml ) (following an adj ) အရာ။ ဟာ။ Her hat was an amazing affair of ribbons and feathers.
၄။ အချစ်ဇာတ်(ခင်းသည်)။ She's having an affair with her boss. LOVE AFFAIR
More examples
- A public affairs consultant
- A social/regional/international affairs correspondent
- The new president is seen to be unreliable on foreign affairs.
- We are friends, but I don’t know much about their private affairs.
- Several government ministers resigned because of the affair.
- The president’s popularity remained largely unaffected by the whole affair.
- [have an affair] : Her husband denied that he was having an affair.
- The party was a rather dull affair.
- [a family affair] : The film is very much a family affair – all her brothers are in the cast.
- Her dress was a long silky affair.
Synonyms
matter, issue, concern, business, situation, event, thing, affaire, amour, assignment, avocation, calling, carrying on, case, circumstance, do, duty, employment, entertainment, episode, extracurricular activity, fling, function, gathering, goings-on, hanky-panky, hap, happening, incident, interest, intimacy, intrigue, job, liaison, love, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, playing around, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, reception, relationship, rendezvous, responsibility, romance, shindig, soiree, subject, task, thing together, topic, transaction, two-timing, undertaking
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