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An event that happens
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occurrence
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Occurrence \Oc*cur"rence\, n. [Cf. F. occurrence. See Occur .] A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. --I. Watts. Any event or incident; esp., ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an unlikely scenario/occurrence ▪ They should build a new road, but that’s an unlikely scenario. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE daily ▪ The visits to the beach became an almost daily occurrence , as Roberts searched ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Middle French occurrence "unexpected happening" or directly from Medieval Latin occurrentia , from Latin occurentem (nominative occurens ), present participle of occurrere (see occur ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an event that happens [syn: happening , natural event ] an instance of something occurring; "a disease of frequent occurrence"; "the occurrence (or presence) of life on other planets"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Actual instance when a situation arises.
Usage examples of occurrence.
The Admiral having asked him about the condition of the country, the Adelantado recounted to him how Francisco Roldan had arisen with 80 men, with all the rest of the occurrences which had passed in this island, since he left it.
In the annals of the abby of Margain in far-off Wales, a monk set down in the chronicles of his monastery the story as he had heard it perhaps considerably after the occurrence, from some source now suspected of being Guillaume de Braose or Hubert de Burgh, or some of their followings.
In consequence of these lamentable occurrences, and the excited state of the northern districts of the kingdom, on the 22nd of July, Lord John Russell announced his intention of taking the requisite precautions for securing the tranquillity of the country, by placing at the hands of the magistrates a better organized constitutional force for putting the law into execution, and providing sufficient military means for supporting them in the performance of their duty.
What was probably as painful to Marie Antoinette as these occurrences themselves was the apathy with which the king regarded them.
Such a storm was a very natural occurrence, and I had no reason to be astonished at it, but somehow, fear was beginning to creep into me, and I wished myself in my room.
This cavern, from which The Shadow had dynamited a way to the Aureole shaft above, was the beginning of another trail that promised a solution to mysterious occurrences that still had Harry puzzled.
It is difficult to imagine a more satisfactory evidence than this of we occurrence of implements in the auriferous, pre-glacial, sub-basaltic gravels.
His argument is based on the occurrence of another American name, Brazil, on the Austral continent.
Many are the indications that our autocthonous predecessors saw a very great deal of the intimate habits of the flora and the fauna and the avifauna, and spoke freely of them, and attributed in their legendary many of these habitsmuch of the particular form and colour, and even habitat, to the influences of supernatural beings and occurrences.
Mather not only acknowledged that there were bewitched people but also reminded readers of the seemingly unending diversity of the invisible world, occurrences God permitted to afflict his people.
A microscopical examination of the green copper ores of secondary origin in the Clifton and Morenci district of Arizona proves brochantite to be of extremely common occurrence mostly intergrown with malachite which effectually masks its presence: it is not unlikely that the malachite of other localities will on examination be found to be intergrown with brochantite.
Such an every-day occurrence could not be expected to have any serious consequences, but alas!
Memmo could have taken no better course to avoid the troublesome consequences which this fatal meeting might have had, and he was very glad that I was with him to testify to his innocence and to the harmlessness of the occurrence.
At last I persuaded myself that what had occurred was after all in no way extraordinary, and that I would certainly have considered it at first a very common occurrence if I had not been dazzled by the wonderful beauty of the nun, and blinded by my own vanity.
The Governor was taking an Earthling for his wife, surely an odd occurrence.