HAPPEN meaning: Occurrence of an event or action

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word happen:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

happen: Merriam-Webster.com
happen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
happen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
happen: Collins English Dictionary
happen: Vocabulary.com
Happen, happen, happen: Wordnik
happen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
happen: Wiktionary
happen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
happen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
happen: Infoplease Dictionary
Happen, happen: Dictionary.com
happen: Online Etymology Dictionary
happen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Happen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
happen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
happen: Rhymezone
Happen (m), happen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
happen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
happen: Free Dictionary
happen: Mnemonic Dictionary
happen: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
happen: Dictionary/thesaurus
happen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

happen: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

happen: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

HAPPEN: Acronym Finder
happen: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

happen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
happen: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To occur or take place.
▸ verb:  (transitive, archaic) To happen to; to befall.
▸ verb:  (intransitive or impersonal, with infinitive) To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
▸ verb:  (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
▸ verb:  (informal) To become popular or trendy.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.

Similar:

take place, occur, come about, bechance, encounter, go on, find, pass off, befall, pass, more...

Opposite:

cease, prevent, halt, avoid, stop

Types:

coincidence, more...

Phrases:

happen to, happen on, happen by, happen simultaneously, happen upon, more...

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