international affairs

1. 1.

   affairs between nations

   “you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television”

   Synonymsworld affairs

   Broaderaffairs

Questions about international affairs

What does international affairs mean?

international affairs means "affairs between nations".

What is another word for international affairs?

Close synonyms include world affairs. 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 international affairs a common word?

international affairs 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.