en:oewn-13950416-n

n.
⦿the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
lexical concept
eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation
the present international situation is dangerous
wondered how such a state of affairs had come about

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Lexical context

wn:	part of speech	wn:noun
∴ontolex:	lexicalized sense	enl:state of affairs

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wn:	interlingual index ⊑ has close match has exact match is in mapping relation with is in semantic relation with	ili:i110136
∴wn:	eq synonym	dn:situation_§1

Other

dc:	Subject ⊑ dc11:subject	noun.state
skos:	is in scheme	Open English WordNet
rdfs:	label	state of affairs situation • state of affairs