happening (noun)
11happening — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. event, incident, occurrence. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. incident, affair, accident; see event 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. event, occurrence, incident, experience, occasion, episode, incidence,… …
12happening — 1 noun (C) something that happens, especially a strange event: recent mysterious happenings on the island 2 adjective slang fashionable and exciting …
13happening — [ˈhæp(ə)nɪŋ] noun [C] an unusual or important event …
14one-off — noun a happening that occurs only once and is not repeated • Hypernyms: ↑happening, ↑occurrence, ↑occurrent, ↑natural event * * * one off «WUHN AWF, OF», adjective, noun. British. –adj. made or intended for only one time, occasion, or person:… …
15gold rush — noun 1. a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line • Syn: ↑boom …
16moment — noun 1 POINT IN TIME (C) a particular point in time: They ve been arguing from the moment they walked in the door. | There were a few worrying moments, but on the whole the play went well. | at the moment especially spoken BrE, formal AmE (=used… …
17succession — noun 1 in succession happening one after the other without anything different happening in between: She won the championship four times in succession. | in close/quick succession (=quickly one after the other) 2 a succession of a number of people …
18cot death — noun sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep • Syn: ↑sudden infant death syndrome, ↑SIDS, ↑infant death, ↑crib death • Hypernyms: ↑death, ↑sleep apnea * * * noun …
19prime time — noun the hours between 7 and 11 p.m. when the largest tv audience is available (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑clock time, ↑time * * * noun 1. : the evening period generally from 7 to 11 p.m. during which television has its largest number of viewers ;… …
20wishful thinking — noun the illusion that what you wish for is actually true (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: ↑illusion, ↑fantasy, ↑phantasy, ↑fancy * * * noun 1. : illusory attribution of actuality to what one wishes to be or become true and discovery of justifications for… …
