occurrence
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occurrence
- /əˈkʌɹ.əns/ UK
- /əˈkɜː.ɹəns/ UK
- /əˈkɜɹ.əns/ US
- /əˈkɐɹ.əns/ New Zealand
- /əˈkøː.ɹəns/ New Zealand
Where it comes from
From Middle French occurrence, from Medieval Latin occurrentia. Morphologically occur + -ence.
noun occurrences
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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 fo
Similar: occurring
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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
Opposite: state
Similar: affair, befalling, episode, instance, event, goings-on, happening, hap, incident, occasion, occurrence, proceeding
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: happening, natural event, incidence, circumstance, event, case, incident, situation, occasion, effect, afterthought, likelihood, availability, here, presence, probability
Translations
Every language
noun actual instance where a situation arises
| Español | acontecimiento, ocurrencia, suceso |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 사건 sageon |
| 日本語 | 出来事 dekigoto |
| 中文 | 事件 shìjiàn |
| हिन्दी | घटना ghaṭnā, परिघटना parighaṭnā |
| Kiswahili | jambo |
| Português | ocorrência, acontecimento |
| Français | occurrence |
| Deutsch | Vorfall, Vorkommnis, Vorkommen, Auftreten |
| Italiano | occorrenza |
| Română | caz, eveniment, întâmplare, fenomen |
| Русский | происше́ствие proisšéstvije, слу́чай slúčaj |
| العربية | حُدُوث ḥudūṯ |
| עברית | מקרה miqre |
Talk about this word "occurrence." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/occurrence. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. occurrence. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/occurrence "occurrence." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/occurrence.Cite this
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title = {occurrence},
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