occasion
IPA: ʌkˈeɪʒʌn
noun
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
- The time when something happens.
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
- Something which causes something else; a cause.
- (obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
- Need; requirement, necessity.
- A special event or function.
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
verb
- (transitive) To cause; to produce; to induce
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Examples of "occasion" in Sentences
- Dinner was a convivial occasion.
- He seemed overawed by the occasion.
- The occasion later inspired the song.
- It is breaking the stillness of the occasion.
- The occasion was profoundly humiliating for Li.
- The bridge was illuminated in pink for the occasion.
- The occasion was that of the multiplication of bread.
- On the occasion of the performances films are realized.
- A keepsake was often printed to commemorate the occasion.
- It was a convivial but not necessarily the happiest of occasions.