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say it: IN-stuhns
instance is a noun and verb meaning "an occurrence of something". It is pronounced /ˈɪnstəns/ — IN-stuhns. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an item of information that is typical of a class or group
“this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome”
“there is an example on page 10”
clarify by giving an example of
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for instance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.