circumstance
Meaning of circumstance
- a fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action.
we wanted to marry but circumstances didn't permit
- one's state of financial or material welfare.
the artists are living in reduced circumstances
- ceremony and public display.
pomp and circumstance
Middle English: from Old French circonstance or Latin circumstantia, from circumstare ‘encircle, encompass’, from circum ‘around’ + stare ‘stand’.
Information about circumstance
- It is a name.
- The plural form of circumstance is: circumstances.
- Languages in which circumstance is used:
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Hyphenation of circumstance
cir-cum-stance
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- circumstance is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
circumstance synonyms
Meaning context:
Meaning condition:
Meaning a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself; a state of affairs:
Meaning the state of something with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order:
Meaning an object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to:
Meaning a place where someone or something is located or has been put:
Meaning a planned public or social occasion:
Meaning an instance of something happening; an event or occurrence:
Meaning an incident or event:
Meaning an event or occurrence:
Meaning an event or a group of events occurring as part of a sequence; an incident or period considered in isolation:
Meaning a circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result:
Meaning the part of a picture, scene, or design that forms a setting for the main figures or objects, or appears furthest from the viewer:
Meaning the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates:
Meaning circumstances:
Meaning faeces:
Meaning a particular group or set of people or things:
Meaning the way in which a person lives:
Meaning a stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively:
Meaning an action or system by which a result is achieved; a method:
Meaning the management of large amounts of money, especially by governments or large companies:
Meaning money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments:
Meaning a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation:
Meaning a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation:
Translation of circumstance
- French: circonstance
- German: Umstand
- Italian: circostanza
- Portuguese: circunstância
- Spanish: circunstancia
Words that rhyme with circumstance
ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance