occasion

Meaning

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. Need; requirement, necessity.
8. A special event or function.
9. A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.

occasion

time

opportunity

chance

cause

event

reason

happening

case

instance

incident

ground

motive

circumstance

occurrence

situation

day

turn

season

bring about

juncture

moment

period

opening

occurence

pretext

point in time

produce

demand

affair

function

place

purpose

cue

excuse

impetus

start

effect

advisability

necessity

leisure

social function

social occasion

create

spot

inducement

point

sense

need

single time

grounds

episode

example

multiplied by

occurance

at that time

time and place

experience

motivate

originate

possibility

spell

term

means

medium

accomplish

make

perform

necessitate

require

exigency

expedience

give rise

author

that which gives rise

handle

hint

business

ancestor

beginning

chief

commencement

founder

fount

fountainhead

head

hub

mainspring

origin

originator

progenitor

root

source

aim

object

call

causation

sake

constraint

necessitousness

neediness

requirement

requisiteness

want

bargain

sale

scope

congest

engender

procure

hazard

round

celebration

ceremony

innings

facility

area

content

depicted object

motif

subject

theme

topic

topos

bring

generate

give

incur

induce

involve

lead

lead up

pose

prompt

propel

spawn

trigger off

date

date of reference

epoch

instant

blame

fault

grain

wherefore

why

development

occurrent

thing

necessary

urge

good luck

social affair

social gathering

opportune moment

iteration

prospect

hour

joint

knuckle

node

section

story

gathering

issue

matter

provoke

party

damaged

used

change

expediency

timeliness

circumstances

times

arouse

lead to

condition

Entwicklung

course of events

events

act

deed

job requirement

modal case

necessitude

era

happen

occur

Frequency

Hyphenated as

oc‧ca‧sion

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈkeɪʒən/

From Middle English occasioun, from Middle French occasion, from Old French occasiun, from Latin occasiōnem, noun of action from perfect passive participle occasus, from verb occido, from prefix ob- (“down", "away”) + verb cado (“fall”).

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