occurrences
- 1Plural of occurrence.
The report listed several unusual occurrences during the night shift.
Such weather events were once rare occurrences along this coast.
Note
A plain -s plural on a noun that already ends in -ence. Nothing in the stem changes, so the spelling keeps its double c, its double r and its -ence ending, never -ance. The plural sits most naturally with the everyday meaning, where happenings are counted one by one: several unusual occurrences, rare occurrences. Linguists also use occurrence for a verb's lexical aspect, its aktionsart, a technical sense far from any tally of events.
occurrences is a form of occurrence
occurrence, noun: An event or happening; a single instance when a situation takes place. Full entry
- Forms
- occurrenceoccurrences plural
- Spelling
- occurrence → occurrences: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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