accident
Meanings
noun
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
- A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
- Any chance event.
- Chance; random chance.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- An instance of incontinence.
- Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
- An unintended pregnancy.
- A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
- An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
adj
- Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
name
- A town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱad- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *ḱádeti Proto-Italic *kadō Latin cadō Latin accidō Latin accidēnslbor. Old French accidentbor. Middle English accident English accident First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident, from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.
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