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Occasion for doing something It should have been an occasion for rejoicing, but she could not feel any real joy. These workshops provide an occasion for talking about art. Occasion for something This is not a time for specifics, but an occasion for vision. Festivals were occasions for great celebration. Family history and occasions Record your family’s past, present, and future with ancestry charts, photo albums, and newsletters.

• birthdays, anniversaries, and other special occasions
• They marked/celebrated the occasion with their families.
• Roses are the perfect flower for any occasion.
• a memorable/historic occasion
• On the occasion of their 25th wedding anniversary, they took a vacation to Paris.

• This would mark the first occasion [=time] that the club accepted new members.

• We usually meet at noon, but on this particular occasion, we met at two o'clock.
• I heard him speak on more than one occasion. = I heard him speak on several occasions.

• The boys never had occasion to meet each other.

• He took/used the occasion to make an announcement.

• On occasion [=occasionally], we'll drive out to the beach and watch the sunset.
• I have on occasion tried to help him with his homework.

late 14c., occasioun, 'opportunity; grounds for action or feeling; state of affairs that makes something else possible; a happening, occurrence leading to some result,' from Old French ochaison, ocasion 'cause, reason, excuse, pretext; opportunity' (13c.) or directly from Latin occasionem (nominative occasio) 'opportunity, appropriate time,' in Late Latin 'cause,' from occasum, occasus, past participle of occidere 'fall down, go down,' from ob 'down, away' (see ob-) + -cidere, combining form of cadere 'to fall' (from PIE root *kad- 'to fall'). The notion is of a 'falling together,' or juncture, of circumstances. The sense of 'the time or a time at which something happens' is from 1560s.

occasion (v.)

mid-15c., occasionen, 'to bring (something) about, be the cause of (something),' from occasion (n.), or else from Old French occasionner 'to cause,' from Medieval Latin occasionare, from Latin occasionem (see occasion (n.)). Related: Occasioned; occasioning.

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