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Etymology

French accident, from Latin accīdēns, -dentis, present participle of accīdō (“‘to happen’”); ad + cadere (“‘to fall’”). See cadence, case.

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Noun

Singular accident

Plural accidents

accident (plural accidents)

  1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character
    to die by an accident
    • Shakespeare, Othello, I-iii:
      Of moving accidents by flood and field.
    • Trench:
      Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee.
  2. (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
  3. (military) An unplanned event that results in injury (including death) or occupational illness to person(s) and/or damage to property, exclusive of injury and/or damage caused by action of an enemy or hostile force.
  4. (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms
  5. (logic) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
    • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 171:
      If they went through their growth-crisis in other faiths and other countries, although the essence of the change would be the same [...], its accidents would be different.
  6. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential
    Beauty is an accident.
  7. (obsolete) Unusual appearance or effect - Geoffrey Chaucer
  8. (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
  9. (transport) An unintended collision or event that causes damage or death.
    There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.
    My insurance is expenive now, mostly because of those two accidents.

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Etymology

From Latin accīdent-, stem of accīdēns, present participle of accīdō (“‘to happen’”).

Pronunciation

Noun

accident m. (plural accidents)

  1. accident (a chance occurrence)
  2. (grammar) accident
  3. (music) accidental
  4. (logic) accident
  5. (transport) accident

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French

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Noun

accident m. (plural accidents)

  1. accident

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