social occasion

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsaffairoccasionfunctionsocial function

   Broadersocial event

   Narrowerpartycelebrationceremonyfundraiserphoto opportunitysleepover

Questions about social occasion

What does social occasion mean?

social occasion means "a vaguely specified social event".

What is another word for social occasion?

Close synonyms include affair, occasion, function, social function. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is social occasion a common word?

social occasion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.