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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: circumstances (0.00976 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to circumstances.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: circumstances circumstances n 1: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); “whatever my fortune may be”; “deserved a better fate”; “has a happy lot”; “the luck of the Irish”; “a victim of circumstances”; “success that was her portion” [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, portion] 2: the state (usually personal) with regard to wealth; “each person was helped according to his circumstances” 3: a person's financial situation (good or bad); “he found himself in straitened circumstances”
English → English (gcide) Definition: circumstance circumstance \cir"cum*stance\ (s[~e]r"k[u^]m*st[a^]ns), n. [L. circumstantia, fr. circumstans, -antis, p. pr. of circumstare to stand around; circum + stare to stand. See Stand.] 1. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things. [1913 Webster] The circumstances are well known in the country where they happened. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 2. An event; a fact; a particular incident. [1913 Webster] The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqueror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in history. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. Circumlocution; detail. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] So without more circumstance at all I hold it fit that we shake hands and part. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. pl. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings. [1913 Webster] When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. --Addison. [1913 Webster] Not a circumstance, of no account. [Colloq.] Under the circumstances, taking all things into consideration. Syn: Event; occurrence; incident; situation; condition; position; fact; detail; item. See Event. [1913 Webster]

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