Dictionary Entry
occasion
occasion is a 8-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.
- 2noun
A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.
- 3noun
An occurrence or condition of affairs which brings with it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason; accidental or incidental cause.
- 4noun
Need; exigency; requirement; necessity; as, I have no occasion for firearms.
- 5noun
A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- 6transitive verb
To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
- 7noun
an event that occurs at a critical time
"at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"
"it was needed only on special occasions"
Synonyms
- 8noun
a vaguely specified social event
"the party was quite an affair"
"an occasion arranged to honor the president"
- 9noun
reason
"there was no occasion for complaint"
- 10noun
an opportunity to do something
"there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"
- 11noun
the time of a particular event
"on the occasion of his 60th birthday"
- 12verb
give occasion to
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