Usually means: Event or moment of significance.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. occasion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. occasion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. occasion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. occasion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. occasion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Occasion, occasion: Wordnik
  7. occasion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. occasion: Wiktionary
  9. occasion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. occasion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. occasion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Occasion, occasion: Dictionary.com
  13. occasion (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. occasion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Occasion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Occasion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. occasion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. occasion: Rhymezone
  19. occasion, occasion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. occasion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Occasion: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. occasion: Free Dictionary
  23. occasion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. occasion: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. occasion: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. occasion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occasion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occasion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occasion: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occasion: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
noun:  The time when something happens.
noun:  An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
noun:  Something which causes something else; a cause.
noun:  (obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
noun:  A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
noun:  Need; requirement, necessity.
noun:  A special event or function.
noun:  A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
verb:  (transitive) To cause; to produce; to induce

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