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/hˈæpənɪŋ/ /hˈæpnɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Happen v. i. (past & past part. happened; pres. part. happening)

1.

To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. "There shall no evil happen to the just."

2.

To take place; to occur. "All these things which had happened."

To happen on, to meet with; to fall or light upon. "I have happened on some other accounts."

To happen in, to make a casual call. (Colloq.)

noun

happening n.

1.

Something that happens; an occurrence; an event.

Synonyms: occurrence, natural event.

2.

Specifically: An event that is particularly interesting, noteworthy, or important.

3.

An artistic or entertainment event that is unconventional, sometimes discontinuous, designed to evoke strong emotions, and sometimes involving participation by the audience.

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Etymology of 'Happening'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Happening" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. nor Mrs. Orban realized was how much Eustace and Nesta knew of certain terrible events happening from time to time in just such isolated homes as their own. It was from the two young white maidservants the children heard tales they listened to with a kind of awful enjoyment by day, but which were remembered at night with a shudder. The creaking ...

— Queensland Cousins • Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

... die," answered the chief; and an exclamation of assent broke from the other natives. Keona himself, happening to be there, became pale and looked anxious; but remained where he stood, nevertheless, with his arms crossed on his dark breast. A bandage of native cloth was tied round his wounded arm. Without saying a word he undid this, tore it off, and ...

— Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader - A Tale of the Pacific • R. M. Ballantyne

... preserve the balance. Nobody paid any attention to the calf. The critter had been caught by the two hind legs. As the rope tightened, he was suddenly upset, and before he could realise that something disagreeable was happening, he was sliding majestically along on his belly. Behind him followed his anxious mother, her head ...

— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White

... are wrong, Fragoni. What is happening may be almost as disastrous, though," he admitted. "That leviathan is in its death agonies; it is a metal monster gone mad, and none can say what will ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 • Various

... that developed in Chicago were Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter. In 1895 the Illinois Labor Bureau, in that year happening to be under the direction of able and conscientious officials, made a painstaking investigation of land values in Chicago. It was estimated that the 266 acres of land, constituting what was owned by individuals and private corporations in one section alone—the South Side,—were ...

— History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I - Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times • Myers Gustavus

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