world affairs

1. 1.

   affairs between nations

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

   Synonymsinternational affairs

   Broaderaffairs

Questions about world affairs

What does world affairs mean?

world affairs means "affairs between nations".

What is another word for world affairs?

Close synonyms include international 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 world affairs a common word?

world 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.