social affair

Questions about social affair

What does social affair mean?

social affair means "a gathering for the purpose of promoting fellowship".

What is another word for social affair?

Close synonyms include social gathering. 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 social affair a common word?

social 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.