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say it: uh-KAY-zhuhn
occasion is a noun and verb meaning "an event that occurs at a critical time". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
an opportunity to do something
“there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill”
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 occasion 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.