Occasions Synonyms

A large or important social gathering
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bashes
  2. dos
  3. parties
  4. functions
  5. fetes
  6. festivities
  7. galas
  8. celebrations
  9. affairs
The general point at which an event occurs
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. times
  2. junctures
  3. seasons
  4. instants
  5. moments
An (immediate) cause
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. causes
  2. antecedents
  3. incidents
That which provides a reason or justification
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. whys
  2. reasons
  3. necessities
  4. grounds
  5. causes
  6. calls
  7. wherefores
An opportunity
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. opportunities
  2. chances
  3. excuses
  4. shots
  5. openings
  6. breaks
To be a proper or sufficient occasion for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. warrants
  2. justifies
A vaguely specified social event
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. occurrences
  2. incidents
  3. happenings
  4. things
  5. functions
  6. events
  7. circumstances
  8. affairs
Something significant that happens
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. things
  2. occurrences
  3. incidents
  4. happenings
  5. events
  6. episodes
  7. developments
  8. circumstances
A favorable or appropriate time or juncture:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. opportunities
A cause of or reason for something:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. causes

Words Related to Occasions

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Occasions Sentence Examples

  • A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true.

  • No adequate definition is to be found even in the British statute-book; for although g parliament has on different occasions passed acts dealing with such railways both in Great Britain and Ireland, it has not inserted in any of them a clear and sufficient statement of what it intends shall be understood by the term, as distinguished from an ordinary railway.

  • It was on one of those occasions that Lisa made her first perplexing discovery.

  • On several occasions they incited the populations of the towns through which they passed against the Jews, and also against the monks who opposed their propaganda.

  • The regulation of human action, on the other hand (except on occasions of special difficulty, for which omens and oracles might be vouchsafed), they had left to human reason.

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