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- pronunciation:
kuh
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
the process or fact of occurring.
- synonyms:
- incidence
- similar words:
- circumstance, hap, happenstance, manifestation
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| definition 2: |
an event that takes place; incident.
a daily occurrence- synonyms:
- affair, case, event, happening, incidence, incident, instance, occasion, phenomenon
- similar words:
- accident, action, activity, business, circumstance, deed, episode, experience, fact, hap, situation
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| related words: |
development, event, matter, presence, proceeding, thing |
adjective + (n.)occurrence
actual,
bizarre,
common,
commonplace,
daily,
everyday,
extraordinary,
familial,
freak,
frequent,
future,
historical,
inevitable,
infrequent,
isolated,
natural,
nightly,
normal,
occasional,
odd,
one-time,
ordinary,
potential,
proportional,
random,
rare,
regular,
relative,
remarkable,
repeated,
reported,
seasonal,
simultaneous,
spontaneous,
statistical,
strange,
subsequent,
sudden,
supernatural,
tragic,
uncommon,
unexpected,
unfortunate,
unique,
unlikely,
unusual,
weekly,
widespread,
written,
yearly
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verb + (n.)occurrence
associate, calculate, decrease, detect, document, influence, minimize, predict, prevent, record, reduce, relate
(n.)occurrence
+ verb
divide, vary
noun + (n.)occurrence
bacterium, beluga, contingent, explanation, extent, frequency, incidence, interval, likelihood, observation, percentage, phenomenon, probability, routine, species, variation
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The word occurrence
contains the following parts:
cur1, curr, cor1, corr, curs, cour1, cours
Latin
root
that means to run
  Example words:
concourse, concur, concurrent, corral, corridor, corsair, courier, course, courser, currency, current, curriculum, cursive, cursory, discourse, excursion, incur, incursion, intercourse, occur, occurrence, precursor, recourse, recur
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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