Occasion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OCCASION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cause
• cause (something)
• To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
• cause
NOUN:
• a particular event, or the time at which it takes place
• a special or noteworthy event, ceremony, or celebration
• a suitable or opportune time for doing something
• reason; cause
• time at which a particular thing happens
• A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.
• A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.
• An occurrence or condition of affairs which brings with it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason; accidental or incidental cause.
• Need; exigency; requirement; necessity; as, I have no occasion for firearms.
• A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
• an event that occurs at a critical time
• a vaguely specified social event
• the time of a particular event
• an opportunity to do something

Words related to OCCASION

occasioned15 occasioning16 occasions13

Words that contain OCCASION

occasions13 occasional14 occasioned15 occasioner14 occasioners15 occasioning16 occasionally19 occasionalism19 occasionalist17 occasionality20 occasionalisms20 occasionalists18 occasionalities19

How to use OCCASION in a sentence

• The occasion on which he first remained crouching at her feet while I walked away was regarded by Miss Kate as a personal triumph.
• I inquired the occasion, and was told that this was the annual fair.
• Few men, I believe, ever had a more painful time in expressing their feelings than I had on that occasion.
• No other exercise was performed on this occasion, than charging, firing off their pieces, and priming and loading at full gallop, by alternate divisions.
• I take back the oath, and ask you, sir, to take back the commission, which was the occasion of my taking it.
• I had never had occasion to address a person of this elevated rank, and I felt no small uneasiness and awe on the present occasion.
• We shall not dwell, however, upon the scene which occurred on the occasion.
• Asshur-ris-ilim on this occasion was content to employ a general against the invader.
• But on this occasion Senator Alcorn made the mistake of making opposition to Senator Ames the test of loyalty to himself.
• He departed at once, to avoid the discussion which he felt its contents might occasion.
• It was upon this occasion that the Ithacan king told the story of the serpent devouring the birds at Aulis, as already related.
• I shall have occasion to describe many instances of this kind as I proceed in my Diary.
• That is clearly the invention of a southern people, which never had occasion to wish it could become oblivious of the weather, as too many of us would like to be in England.
• And after all, it is our duty to do this, save upon grave occasion.
• The value lord Cowper set upon it will be best shewn, by the letter he wrote upon this occasion to Mr.
• This they saw would occasion endless Disputes between them, unless they could come to some Accommodation.
• Hamilton, for whose family, she took occasion to tell us, she had, in former days, been in the habit of doing needle-work.
• In spite of the troubled times and the dark cloud hanging over them they made the occasion one of rejoicing.
• She was visible, when absent on another occasion, to another spectator.
• I remember an occasion when the Supreme Court of the state, or a department of it, had rendered an opinion setting aside a certain sum as the share of certain trustees.
• I avail myself of the occasion to offer to you the assurance of my distinguished consideration.
• I took occasion to describe briefly the battle I had seen his father wage at Westminster.
• The Gomarists, far from recovering from their prejudices, took occasion from the book of the Satisfaction of Christ to accuse the author of Semi-pelagianism.
• The mother had determined to make the occasion a memorable one.
• On each occasion Dumas declares that, after reflecting, he saw that he was moved by a little personal pique, not by a disinterested love of art.
• In the warmth of debate, upon one occasion, he alluded in severe terms, to the manner in which Mr.
• In July, 1882, on the occasion of a fire in Brighton, England, a fireman took hold of a fire-escape which was in contact with the wire of a Brush machine.

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