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English Dictionary: Happen |
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2 results for Happen |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- happen
- v
- come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place
off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
Synonym(s): 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)
Synonym(s): happen, befall, bechance
- chance to be or do something, without intention or causation; "I happen to have just what you need!"
- come into being; become reality; "Her dream really materialized"
Synonym(s): happen, materialize, materialise Antonym(s): dematerialise, dematerialize
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "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"
Synonym(s): find, happen, chance, bump, encounter
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Happen \Hap"pen\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Happened}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Happening}.] [OE. happenen, hapnen. See {Hap} to happen.]
1. To come by chance; to come without previous expectation;
to fall out.
There shall no evil happen to the just. --Prov. xii.
21.
2. To take place; to occur.
All these things which had happened. --Luke xxiv.
14.
{To happen on}, to meet with; to fall or light upon. [bd]I
have happened on some other accounts.[b8] --Graunt.
{To happen in}, to make a casual call. [Colloq.]
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