Meaning

A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance..

Definitions by Sense

1. A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
2. The time when something happens.
3. An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
4. Something which causes something else; a cause.
5. (obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
6. A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
7. A need; requirement, necessity.
8. A special event or function.

Example Sentences

At this point, she seized the occasion to make her own observation.

Foꝛ ſynne toke occaſiõ by the meanes of the cõmaundement and ſo diſceaved me / and by the ſilfe cõmaundemẽt ſlewe me.

I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.

That our Work, therefore, might be in no Danger of being likened to the Labours of theſe Hiſtorians, we have taken every Occaſion of interſpersing through the whole ſundry Similes, Deſcriptions, and other kind of poetical Embelliſhments.

On this occasion, I'm going to decline your offer, but next time I might agree.

And Vickers launched forth in a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with supreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.

I had no occasion to feel offended, however.

[I]t were too vile to ſay, and ſcarce to be beleeued, what we endured: but the occaſion was our owne, for want of prouidence, induſtrie and gouernment, […]

Word Forms

• occasions
• occasioning
• occasioned

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