'occasion' definitions:
Definition of 'occasion'
(from WordNet)
noun
An event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions" [syn: juncture, occasion]
noun
A vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions" [syn: affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function]
noun
Reason; "there was no occasion for complaint"
noun
The time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th birthday"
noun
An opportunity to do something; "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill"
verb
Give occasion to
Synonyms of 'occasion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a leg up,
- advantage,
- adventure,
- affair,
- antecedent,
- antecedents,
- author,
- bare necessities,
- base,
- basis,
- bear,
- beget,
- break,
- breed,
- bring about,
- bring forth,
- bring on,
- bring to effect,
- bring to pass,
- call,
- call for,
- call forth,
- call up,
- causation,
- cause,
- cause and effect,
- celebration,
- ceremony,
- chance,
- circumstance,
- clear stage,
- commemoration,
- conceive,
- condition,
- conjuncture,
- contingency,
- create,
- demand,
- demand for,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- determinant,
- determinative,
- do,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- element,
- elicit,
- engender,
- episode,
- essential,
- essentials,
- establish,
- etiology,
- event,
- eventuality,
- evoke,
- excuse,
- experience,
- fact,
- factor,
- fair field,
- fair game,
- father,
- found,
- foundation,
- function,
- gala,
- generate,
- gestate,
- give birth to,
- give occasion to,
- give origin to,
- give rise to,
- go,
- ground,
- grounds,
- hap,
- happening,
- happenstance,
- impel,
- impulse,
- inaugurate,
- incident,
- incitement,
- indispensable,
- induce,
- inducement,
- institute,
- juncture,
- justification,
- liberty,
- look-in,
- make,
- make for,
- matter of fact,
- milestone,
- moment,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessities,
- necessity,
- need,
- need for,
- obligation,
- observance,
- occasionally,
- occurrence,
- on occasion,
- opening,
- opportunism,
- opportunity,
- originate,
- particular,
- party,
- phenomenon,
- place,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- principle,
- produce,
- prompt,
- prompting,
- provocation,
- provoke,
- reality,
- realize,
- reason,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisition,
- right,
- room,
- scope,
- set afloat,
- set on foot,
- set up,
- shot,
- show,
- sire,
- squeak,
- stepping-stone,
- stimulus,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- thing,
- time,
- turn of events,
- want,
- warrant,
- work,
- work up