accident
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
accident/ˈaksɪdənt/
▶noun
- 1 an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally.
- 2 something that happens by chance or without apparent cause.
■ chance: we met by accident.
- 3 Philosophy a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘an event’): via OFr. from L. accident-, accidere, from ad- ‘towards, to’ + cadere ‘to fall’.
'accident' also found in these Oxford entries:
A & E
- accidence
- accidental
- assurance
- backboard
- bit
- black spot
- body bag
- cadence
- casualty
- chance
- collide
- cover
- crashworthiness
- disable
- disaster
- fatality
- fault
- flight recorder
- foreign body
- grief
- hit
- meltdown
- mishap
- oops
- predicable
- prone
- res ipsa loquitur
- retire
- RTA
- shunt
- survive
- toll
- victim
- walking wounded
- whiplash
