gala affair

1. 1.

   a gay festivity

   Synonymsgalajamboreeblowout

   Broadercelebration

Questions about gala affair

What does gala affair mean?

gala affair means "a gay festivity".

What is another word for gala affair?

Close synonyms include gala, jamboree, blowout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gala affair a common word?

gala affair is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.