affray
C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
A public fight or brawl that disturbs the peace.
Several men were charged after the affray outside the tavern spilled into the street.
Law noun
A public-order offence of using or threatening unlawful violence such as to frighten a bystander of reasonable firmness.
The brawl outside the club led to several men being charged with affray.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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