"affair" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "affair",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affairs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "af‧fair",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We're thinking less about foreign affairs, and more about what happens here inside the country."
        },
        {
          "text": "He now writes a column for the newspaper and hosts a weekly public affairs program."
        },
        {
          "text": "The whole affair with Bill Clinton was a terrible mess."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Affairs are things that happen or are done, usually that are important enough to be in the news."
      ],
      "id": "simple-affair-en-noun-bFrkH8BA",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There were many brief, desperate love affairs between English women and the American soldiers during the war."
        },
        {
          "text": "She thinks her mother may be having an affair with a doctor."
        },
        {
          "text": "Baseball is a love affair Japan shares with America."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An affair is a romantic or sexual relationship between two people when at least one of them is married to somebody else."
      ],
      "id": "simple-affair-en-noun-E3Me5bN7",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "What I do in my free time is my affair."
        },
        {
          "text": "Policing on Indian reservations is the job of the Bureau of Indian Affairs."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An affair is something that is related to a particular individual or group."
      ],
      "id": "simple-affair-en-noun-O76ySzMD",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈfɛr/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈfɛə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-affair.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "affair"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "affair",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "affairs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "af‧fair",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We're thinking less about foreign affairs, and more about what happens here inside the country."
        },
        {
          "text": "He now writes a column for the newspaper and hosts a weekly public affairs program."
        },
        {
          "text": "The whole affair with Bill Clinton was a terrible mess."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Affairs are things that happen or are done, usually that are important enough to be in the news."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There were many brief, desperate love affairs between English women and the American soldiers during the war."
        },
        {
          "text": "She thinks her mother may be having an affair with a doctor."
        },
        {
          "text": "Baseball is a love affair Japan shares with America."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An affair is a romantic or sexual relationship between two people when at least one of them is married to somebody else."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "What I do in my free time is my affair."
        },
        {
          "text": "Policing on Indian reservations is the job of the Bureau of Indian Affairs."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An affair is something that is related to a particular individual or group."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈfɛr/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈfɛə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-affair.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "affair"
}