different between affair vs chore
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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chore
English
Etymology 1
From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ?err, ?ierr (“a turn”), from ?ierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Dutch keer (“time; turn; occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn; bend; wind; back-flip; u-turn”). Also related to Saterland Frisian kiere, käire (“to turn”), Old Saxon k?rian, Old High German ch?ran (“to turn”) (German kehren (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”)). See also char.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA(key): /t???/
- (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA(key): /t???/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA(key): /t?o(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /t?o?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
chore (plural chores)
- A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
Derived terms
- choreful
- choreless
- chorelike
- choresome
- chore wheel
Translations
Verb
chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)
- (US, dated) To do chores.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chore”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Etymology 2
Possibly derived from Romani ?or (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.
Alternative forms
- chor (Geordie)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA(key): /t???/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA(key): /t?o(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /t?o?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Verb
chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)
- (Britain, informal) To steal.
Synonyms
- steal (standard English)
- thieve (standard English)
- twoc (Geordie)
Etymology 3
Noun
chore (plural chores)
- (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
- 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood
- On every wall, and sung where e'er I walk. I number these, as being of the chore
- 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood
Anagrams
- Roche, ocher, ochre, roche
Latin
Noun
chore
- vocative singular of chorus
Lower Sorbian
Adjective
chore
- Superseded spelling of chóre.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?x?.r?/
Adjective
chore
- inflection of chory:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Portuguese
Verb
chore
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chorar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of chorar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chorar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chorar
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