Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The action, fact, or instance of occurring.
- n. Something that takes place.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of occurring; occasional presentation.
- n. An incident or accidental event; that which happens without being designed or expected; an event; a happening: as, an unusual occurrence; such occurrences are not uncommon.
- n. Happenings collectively; course of events.
- n. Eccles., the coincidence of two or more festivals on the same day. See occur, v. i., 5, and concurrence, n., 4. Synonyms 2. Incident, Circumstance, etc. (see
event ); Occasion, Emergency, etc. (seeexigency ).
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A coming or happening.
- n. Any event or incident; esp., one which happens without being designed or expected.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an event that happens
- n. an instance of something occurring
Examples
“One reason I see for this occurrence is the libtards who want to ban guns and hunting have us running scared and the powers-that-be in the shooting community have developed this "cult of safety" (to show our "worthiness" to keep the hunting/shooting tradition) whereby every person that makes a mistake, no matter the degree, deserves excommunication from our church/religion.”
“Sometimes they took a back door into what she called occurrence and what Corey called the real world.”
“While neither occurrence is singly responsible for Washington's 1-2 record over the past seven days, they haven't helped either.”
“With the real-time media web a near-certain occurrence within 5 years or so, the Quixotic attempts of TimeWarner & others will only hasten their demise.”
Congressman: Metered Broadband Kills Jobs & May Violate 1st Amendment
“February 11th, 2010 at 7: 32 pm although my intuitive assumption would be that if an activity was subject to significant state action & social opprobrium its frequency in occurrence would drop.”
“But yes, as I said, you really just have to focus on writing the best book you can, because you could go crazy with wondering what random occurrence is going to affect your career.”
“A block distribution in a word's occurrence is usually suggestive of a term diffused by borrowing across neighboring societies.”
“She saw the infant Christ in the Christmas crèche, and when she went to work in the kitchen, she found that he had followed her there. 95 A similar occurrence is recorded as happening to Adelheit die Huterin, who served as cellaress at St. Katharinenthal.”
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
“Then he says the probability of its occurrence is 10 to the zillion, similar to the probability of a "CCC", so — SHAZAM — this thing couldn't have come about naturally.”
“More important than the improbabilities occurrence, is why we happen to notice that one, and how we can use that awareness to better survive the world. — theo”
What’s the Significance of Your Sign? A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘occurrence’.
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probablyankita's list
Words are all I have to take your heart away
apartheid, techno-klutz, logorrheic, gordian knot, anodyne, odor of sanctity, finders keepers, foot-in-mouth dis..., dutch uncle, masquerade, smoke signals, furtive glance and 320 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EN - eesily missspellable wirds
accessible, accommodate, achievement, acquaintance, address, advertisement, alleged, athletics, attendance, auxiliary, believe, challenge and 118 more...
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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AGRI - animal health
Herod premium, beef consumption, time hung between..., checks on feed, optimal feeding p..., intensive farming, protein-rich feed..., concentrated feed, grass-fed beef ca..., grass silage, farm-animal feed, incorporation pre... and 156 more...
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Words I Misspell
There are words suffering from a butcher.
prioprietary, definitely, a lot, bellwether, committed, daiquiri, existence, gauge, guard, guarantee, harass, lightning and 7 more...
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Time
Words related to time
time, occurrence, duration, schedule, calendar, period, continuance, event, before, until, since, after and 28 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Words I assumed I had not been misspe...
Catching a misspelling is both pleasurable (hooray learning!) and painful (every sentence you now realize you've ever marred with the offending word flashes to mind in one terrible instant).
...separate, exercise, a lot, all right, cemetery, consensus, supersede, playwright, noticeable, perseverance, medieval, gauge and 88 more...
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Daily English Vocabulary
upbeat, script, tip, review, quiz, soap, skill, record, cloud, journey, improve, cartoon and 7 more...
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