Search Result for "accident": pronunciation
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury;

2. anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause;
- Example: "winning the lottery was a happy accident"
- Example: "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"
- Example: "it was due to an accident or fortuity"
[syn: accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Accident \Ac"ci*dent\, n. [F. accident, fr. L. accidens,
   -dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall.
   See Cadence, Case.]
   1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without
      one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and
      unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an
      undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or
      unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by
      an accident.
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            Of moving accidents by flood and field. --Shak.
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            Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident:
            It is the very place God meant for thee. --Trench.
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   2. (Gram.) A property attached to a word, but not essential
      to it, as gender, number, case.
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   3. (Her.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in
      a coat of arms.
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   4. (Log.)
      (a) A property or quality of a thing which is not
          essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
      (b) A quality or attribute in distinction from the
          substance, as sweetness, softness.
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   5. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental
      or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
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            This accident, as I call it, of Athens being
            situated some miles from the sea.     --J. P.
                                                  Mahaffy.
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   6. Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   Note: Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such
         unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as
         is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
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The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

ACCIDENT, n.  An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable
natural laws.



U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Accident, MD (town, FIPS 225)
  Location: 39.62694 N, 79.32088 W
  Population (1990): 349 (155 housing units)
  Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 21520


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

77 Moby Thesaurus words for "accident":
   accessary, accessory, accidental, addendum, addition, adjunct,
   adventure, appendage, appurtenance, auxiliary, blow, blunder,
   calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, chance, chance hit,
   collateral, collision, coming to be, contingency, contingent,
   contretemps, crack-up, crash, destiny, disaster, event,
   eventuality, eventuation, extra, fate, fluke, fortuity, fortune,
   freak accident, grief, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard,
   ill hap, incidence, incidental, inessential, kismet, long odds,
   long shot, luck, lucky shot, materialization, mere chance,
   misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, mistake, nasty blow,
   nonessential, not-self, other, pileup, realization, secondary,
   serendipity, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow,
   subsidiary, superaddition, supplement, tragedy, unessential,
   wreck