noun
- An event that happens.
- synonyms: occurrence, occurrent, natural event
verb
- Come to pass.
- usage: "What is happening"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
- synonyms: happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
- Happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance."It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)
- Chance to be or do something, without intention or causation.
- usage: "I happen to have just what you need"
- synonyms: happen
- Come into being; become reality.
- usage: "Her dream really materialized"
- synonyms: happen, materialize, materialise
- Come upon, as if by accident; meet with.
- usage: "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
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