Noun

• S: (n) matter, affair, thing (a vaguely specified concern) "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) concern (something that interests you because it is important or affects you) "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern"
• S: (n) worldly concern, earthly concern, world, earth (the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife) "they consider the church to be independent of the world"
• S: (n) matter, affair, thing (a vaguely specified concern) "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
• S: (n) personal business, personal matters, affairs (matters of personal concern) "get his affairs in order"
• S: (n) part (that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation) "it requires vigilance on our part"; "they resisted every effort on his part"
• S: (n) point of honor (a concern that seriously reflects on your honor)
• S: (n) affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour (a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship)
• S: (n) affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function (a vaguely specified social event) "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"