occur
pronunciation
How to pronounce occur in British English:
UK [əˈkɜː(r)]
How to pronounce occur in American English:
US [əˈkɜːr]
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- Verb:
- come to pass
- come to one's mind; suggest itself
- to be found to exist
Word Origin
- occur
- occur: [16] Etymologically, occur means ‘run towards’. It was borrowed from Latin occurrere, a compound verb formed from the prefix ob- ‘towards’ and currere ‘run’ (source of English course, current, etc). This had the sense ‘run to meet’, hence simply ‘meet’, which survived into English: ‘The whole multitude might freely move … with very little occurring or interfering’, Richard Bentley, Boyle Lectures 1692. But ‘meeting’ also passed into ‘presenting itself’, ‘appearing’, and hence ‘happening’ – from which the main present-day meaning of English occur comes.=> course, current
- occur (v.)
- 1520s, "meet, meet in argument," from Middle French occurrer "happen unexpectedly" or directly from Latin occurrere "run to meet, run against, befall, present itself," from ob "against, toward" (see ob-) + currere "to run" (see current (adj.)). Sense development is from "meet" to "present itself" to "appear" to "happen" ("present itself in the course of events"). Meaning "to come into one's mind" is from 1620s. Related: Occurred; occurring.
Example
- 1. Might such an internal adjustment even occur naturally ?
- 2. That is because that pain will occur anyway .
- 3. The isotope does occur in nature but only extremely rarely .
- 4. That will only occur if the us now gives the leadership we need .
- 5. These events are unlikely to occur simultaneously .