Events
Synonyms for occasion
Synonyms for occasion: event and affair. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for occasion
Interchangeable with occasion in this sense
Audited under occasion's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one occasion carries in that sense.
- eventnoun, in the sense "a particular event, especially one marked by celebration or formality"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name occasion as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- affairaffair is a noun in the sense "a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under occasion and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a particular event, especially one marked by celebration or formality
It was a formal occasion, so guests wore suits and gowns.
The true synonym
event
Same sentence, swapped: It was a formal event, so guests wore suits and gowns.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for occasion in the sentence quoted.
- invitation
- tradition
- season
Where occasion turns up in the game
occasion is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where occasion is the trap
- principlenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is rule, in the sense "a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system", so occasion is there to be ruled out.
- juncturenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is crossroads, in the sense "a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made", with occasion sitting one tile away.
Play occasion
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so occasion reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other events words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. occasion carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.