different between affair vs occurrence

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)

1. (often in the plural) Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.

   Synonyms: matter, concern
2. Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely.
3. (military) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.
4. 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.
5. An adulterous relationship. (from affaire de cœur).
6. A romantic relationship with someone who is not one's regular partner (boyfriend, girlfriend).
7. A person with whom someone has an adulterous relationship.
8. A party or social gathering, especially of a formal nature.
9. (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.

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)

1. affair (extramarital relationship)

   Synonym: aventura

English

Etymology

From Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia.

Morphologically occur +? -ence.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k???n(t)s/, /??k????n(t)s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k??n(t)s/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??k???n(t)s/, /??k????n(t)s/
• In accents without the hurry-furry merger, /??/ is nevertheless occasionally heard through influence of occur.

Noun

occurrence (plural occurrences)

1. An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.
2. (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.

   Antonym: state

   Hyponyms: accomplishment, achievement, activity

Usage notes

• This word is often misspelled occurence, occurrance or occurance.

Related terms

• recurrence

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.ky.???s/

Noun

occurrence f (plural occurrences)

1. occurrence

Derived terms

• en l'occurrence

Further reading

• “occurrence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).