occurrence en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- ə-kûrʹəns (General-American)
- /əˈkɐɹ.əns/ (New-Zealand)
- /əˈkɜː.ɹəns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /əˈkʌɹ.əns/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /əˈkøː.ɹəns/ (New-Zealand)
- /əˈkɜɹ.əns/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia. Morphologically occur + -ence.
Meanings
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An actual instance when a situation occurs; an event or happening.
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
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The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change in or over time.
The time interval of an occurrence—a temporal instantiation—is a single occasion. However, a series of such occasions can fall within a certain time interval; in this case we may represent the occurrence as a single situation (cf. I ran off and on for an hour, I ran and ran for an hour, I would run and then run some more).
1991, Robert Binnick, Time and the Verb: A Guide to Tense and Aspect, page 180:The most basic Aktionsart distinction is between states and occurrences. […]Based on consideration of inherent differences between the events involved, Vendler distinguished three different types of occurrence, achievements, activities, and accomplishments.
2010, Nick Riemer, Introducing Semantics, page 320:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| occurrences | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
reoccurrence · postoccurrence · interoccurrence · programmed random occurrence · cooccurrence · time of occurrence · extent of occurrence · occurrence time · co-occurrence · nonoccurrence · preoccurrence
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Meronyms
Relateds
state · ensuance · recurrence · activity
Synonyms
affair · episode · occasion · event · proceeding · occurrence · instance · goings-on · happening · befalling · hap · occurring · incident
Translations (76)
bg слу́чка (actual instance where a situation arises) · ar حُدُوث (actual instance where a situation arises) · fa اتفاق (actual instance where a situation arises) · nl voorval (actual instance where a situation arises) · pdt Väafaul (actual instance where a situation arises) · pt ocorrência (actual instance where a situation arises) · hy իրադարձություն (actual instance where a situation arises) · it occorrenza (actual instance where a situation arises) · hy դիպված (actual instance where a situation arises) · et juhtum (actual instance where a situation arises) · hi परिघटना (actual instance where a situation arises) · id keterjadian (actual instance where a situation arises) · fi tapaus (actual instance where a situation arises) · ru слу́чай (actual instance where a situation arises) · uk поді́я (actual instance where a situation arises) · hi घटना (actual instance where a situation arises) · tr vaka (actual instance where a situation arises) · de Vorkommen (actual instance where a situation arises) · hu előfordulás (actual instance where a situation arises) · tr oluş (actual instance where a situation arises) · ro caz (actual instance where a situation arises) · fr occurrence (actual instance where a situation arises) · be падзе́я (actual instance where a situation arises) · de Vorkommnis (actual instance where a situation arises) · hy պատահար (actual instance where a situation arises) · be здарэ́нне (actual instance where a situation arises) · be вы́падак (actual instance where a situation arises) · ro eveniment (actual instance where a situation arises) · pl okazja (actual instance where a situation arises) · nb seanse (actual instance where a situation arises) · cmn 事件 (actual instance where a situation arises) · es ocurrencia (actual instance where a situation arises) · ro fenomen (actual instance where a situation arises) · ba осраҡ (actual instance where a situation arises) · lv notikums (actual instance where a situation arises) · sh слу̏ча̄ј (actual instance where a situation arises) · tr hadise (actual instance where a situation arises) · hy դեպք (actual instance where a situation arises) · de Vorfall (actual instance where a situation arises) · pl zjawisko (actual instance where a situation arises) · gd tuiteamas (actual instance where a situation arises) · pl pojawienie się (actual instance where a situation arises) · sl dogodek (actual instance where a situation arises) · ru происше́ствие (actual instance where a situation arises) · sw jambo (actual instance where a situation arises) · mhr амал (actual instance where a situation arises) · fi tapahtuma (actual instance where a situation arises) · wa avnaedje (actual instance where a situation arises) · sh slȕčāj (actual instance where a situation arises) · ko 사건 (actual instance where a situation arises) · pl wypadek (actual instance where a situation arises) · ja 出来事 (actual instance where a situation arises) · sk výskyt (actual instance where a situation arises) · sv tillfälle (actual instance where a situation arises) · mk случај (actual instance where a situation arises) · de Auftreten (actual instance where a situation arises) · ro întâmplare (actual instance where a situation arises) · sk príhoda (actual instance where a situation arises) · eo okazo (actual instance where a situation arises) · sv händelse (actual instance where a situation arises) · hu megtörténés (actual instance where a situation arises) · no tilfelle (actual instance where a situation arises) · es acontecimiento (actual instance where a situation arises) · tl pagkatupad (actual instance where a situation arises) · es suceso (actual instance where a situation arises) · la ēventum (actual instance where a situation arises) · cs výskyt (actual instance where a situation arises) · he מקרה (actual instance where a situation arises) · pl wydarzenie (actual instance where a situation arises) · sa घटना (actual instance where a situation arises) · pt acontecimento (actual instance where a situation arises) · uk ви́падок (actual instance where a situation arises) · egy z:p*zp (actual instance where a situation arises) · tr olay (actual instance where a situation arises) · ota سفر (actual instance where a situation arises) · txb wäntare (actual instance where a situation arises)