occasion

Roget category 134

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#134. Occasion

noun

timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room — event (eventuality) 151 — suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time — high time — opportuneness etc. adj. — tempestivity^†.
crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture — crisis, turning point, given time.
nick of time — golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening — clear stage, fair field — mollia tempora [Lat.] — fata Morgana [Lat.] — spare time etc. (leisure) 685.

verb

seize an opportunity etc. (take) 789, use an opportunity etc. 677, give an opportunity etc. 784, use an occasion — improve the occasion.
suit the occasion etc. (be expedient) 646.
seize the occasion, strike while the iron is hot, battre le fer sur l'enclume [Fr.], make hay while the sun shines, seize the present hour, take time by the forelock, prendre la balle au bond [Fr.].

adjective

opportune, timely, well-timed, timeful^†, seasonable.
providential, lucky, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious, auspicious, critical — suitable etc. 23 — obiter dicta.

adverb

opportunely etc. adj. — in proper course, in due course, in proper season, in due season, in proper time, in due time — for the nonce — in the nick of time, in the fullness of time — all in good time — just in time, at the eleventh hour, now or never.
by the way, by the by — en passant [Fr.], a propos [Fr.] — pro re nata [Lat.], pro hac vice [Lat.] — par parenthese [Fr.], parenthetically, by way of parenthesis, incidentally — while speaking of, while on the subject — extempore — on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion — on the spot etc. (early) 132.

phrase

carpe diem [Lat.], [Horace]; occasionem cognosce [Lat.] — one's hour is come, the time is up — that reminds me, now that you mention it, come to think of it — bien perdu bien connu [Fr.] — e sempre l'ora [It] — ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius [Lat.] — nosce tempus [Lat.] — nunc aut nunquam [Lat.].

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