Dictionary Definition
occur
Verb
1 come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The
meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred
that seemed important" [syn: happen, hap, go on, pass off,
pass, fall out,
come
about, take
place]
2 come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It
occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great
idea then came to her" [syn: come]
3 to be found to exist; "sexism occurs in many
workplaces"; "precious stones occur in a large area in Brazil"
[also: occurring,
occurred]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Originally “meet, meet in argument”, from occurrer, from occurrere, (ob- + currere).Verb
- To present itself;
to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place.
- I will write if opportunity occurs.
- To meet or come to the
mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory.
- rfdate convert into real quote There does not occur to me any use of this experiment for profit. - Bacon.
Related terms
Translations
present itself
meet or come to the mind
- Czech: napadnout
- Dutch: invallen, opkomen, verschijnen
- Finnish: tapahtua
- French: venir à l’idée (de quelqu’un)
- German: einfallen, in den Sinn kommen
- Portuguese: ocorrer
- Romanian: trece
- Spanish: ocurrirse
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
appear,
arise, be, be extant, be found, be in
existence, be located, be met with, be present, be realized, be
situated, be the case, be there, become manifest, befall, betide, breathe, chance, come, come about, come down, come
off, come to, come to mind, come to pass, come true, crop up, dawn
on, dawn upon one, develop, dwell in, eventuate, exist, fall, go off, grab one, hap, happen, happen to be, have being,
have place, hit, hold, indwell, inhere, lie, live, manifest itself, materialize, obtain, occur to, offer itself,
pass, pass off, present
itself, prevail,
remain, rise to mind,
stand, strike, strike the mind, subsist, suggest itself,
surface, take place,
transpire, turn
up