Dictionary Definition
occurrence
Noun
1 an event that happens [syn: happening, natural
event]
2 an instance of something occurring; "a disease
of frequent occurrence"; "the occurrence (or presence) of life on
other planets"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /əˈkɚəns/
- Note: This word is often misspelled occurence, occurrance or occurance.
Related terms
Translations
actual instance where a situation arises
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 事件 (shìjiàn)
- Czech: výskyt
- Dutch: voorval
- Finnish: sattuma, tapahtuma, tapaus
- French: événement
- German: Vorfall
- Hungarian: megtörténés, előfordulás
- Italian: occorrenza
- Japanese: 出来事 (できごと, dekigoto)
- Korean: 사건 (sageon)
- Portuguese: ocorrência
- Russian: происшествие (proisšéstvije)
- Spanish: acontecimiento
- Swedish: händelse
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accessibility, actual
presence, adventure,
affair, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, availability, avatar, being, being here, being there,
chance, circumstance, coming, coming into being,
coming-forth, condition, conjuncture, contingency, development, disclosure, emergence, emergency, ens, entity, epiphany, episode, esse, essence, event, eventuality, exigency, existence, experience, exposure, fact, forthcoming, frequency, go, hap, happening, happenstance, hereness, immanence, immediacy, incarnation, incidence, incident, indwellingness, inherence, instance, issuance, juncture, life, likelihood, manifestation, materiality, materialization,
materializing,
matter, matter of fact,
occasion, opening, particular, pass, phenomenon, physical
presence, presence,
presentation,
rate, reality, realization, revelation, rise, rising, showing, showing forth, situation, spiritual presence,
state, subsistence, substantiality, theophany, thereness, thing, turn of events, ubiety, unfolding, unfoldment, whereness