foreign affairs
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Policy of a government in dealing with other countries or with activities overseas.
noun
A government office or department charged with handling relations with other countries.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see foreign, affairs.
Example Sentences
- "Most of the twelve Caesars were rumored to have been licentious as both adulterers and homosexuals (not that the two were mutually exclusive, as will be seen), and Gaius and Nero were both supposed to have been adulterers, active homosexuals, and pathics. According to Suetonius, Julius Caesar was cuckolded by Clodius (Iul. 6, 74) but was himself so noted an adulterer that Pompey (lul. 50) called him "Aegisthus" (mock epic again); and his foreign affairs were the talk of Rome and of the army (Iul, 49–52)."
Phrases
foreign minister
the Foreign Secretary
a foreign secretary
foreign service
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
a ministry of foreign affairs
Frequently Paired Words
foreign minister
the Foreign Secretary
a foreign secretary
foreign service
MFA
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
a ministry of foreign affairs
international relations