circumstance
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circumstance/ˈsɜːkəmstəns/
▶noun
- 1 a fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action.
- 2 (circumstances) one's state of financial or material welfare.
- 3 archaic ceremony and public display: pomp and circumstance.
– phrases
under (or in) the circumstances given the difficult nature of the situation.
under (or in) no circumstances never.
under (or in) the circumstances given the difficult nature of the situation.
under (or in) no circumstances never.
– derivatives
circumstanced adjective.
circumstanced adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. circonstance or L. circumstantia, from circumstare ‘encircle, encompass’.
'circumstance' also found in these Oxford entries:
advantage
- cancel
- complication
- concessive
- contingency
- contraindicate
- disadvantage
- factor
- happenstance
- job
- let
- militate
- point
- point of honour
- self-imposed
- set-off
- stigma
- trigger point
- unpropitious
- worse
- worst
