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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adventure; scene |
| Synonyms: | affair, business, chapter, circumstance, doings, event, experience, goings-on, happening, incident, installment, interlude, matter, occasion, occurrence, part, passage, section, thing*, what's going down |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | anecdote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interesting or amusing story |
| Synonyms: | chestnut, episode, fairy tale, fish story, gag, incident, long and short of it, narration, narrative, old chestnut, recital, relation, reminiscence, short story, sketch, tale, tall story, tall tale, yarn |
| Notes: | an antidote is a remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison; an agent is a force or substance that relieves or counteracts; an anecdote is a short account of an interesting or humorous incident |
| Main Entry: | chapter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | section of book or group of items |
| Synonyms: | affiliate, branch, clause, division, episode, member, offshoot, part, period, phase, stage, topic, unit, wing |
| Main Entry: | circumstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation, condition |
| Synonyms: | Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at |
| Main Entry: | digression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation; straying |
| Synonyms: | apostrophe, aside, deflection, departure, detour, difference, discursion, divagation, divergence, diversion, drifting, episode, excursion, excursus, footnote, incident, note, obiter dictum, parenthesis, rambling, variation, wandering |
| Antonyms: | directness, straightness |
| Main Entry: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence, happening |
| Synonyms: | accident, act, action, advent, adventure, affair, appearance, business, calamity, case, catastrophe, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, coincidence, conjuncture, crisis, deed, development, emergency, episode, experience, exploit, fact, function, holiday, incident, juncture, marvel, matter, milestone, miracle, misfortune, mishap, mistake, occasion, occurrence, pass, phase, phenomenon, predicament, proceeding, shift, situation, story, thing*, tide, transaction, triumph, turn, wonder |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening, occurrence |
| Synonyms: | adventure, affair, encounter, episode, event, incident, ordeal, test, trial, trip |
| Main Entry: | fact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | event; detail of action |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, act, action, actuality, adventure, affair, being, case, circumstance, conception, consideration, construction, creation, data, datum, deed, entity, episode, evidence, experience, factor, fait accompli, feature, happening, incident, information, item, manifestation, occurrence, organism, particular, performance, phenomenon, point, proceeding, specific, statistic, transaction, truism |
| Antonyms: | lie |
| Main Entry: | happening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence |
| Synonyms: | accident, adventure, affair, case, chance, circumstance, episode, event, experience, go*, incident, milestone, occasion, phenomenon, proceeding, scene, thing* |
| Antonyms: | method, plan, system |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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