opportunity
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)opportunities
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances“the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington”“now is your chance”Synonyms: chanceType of possibility, possiblenessKinds hearing, room, shot, fresh start, hunting ground, throw, opening, occasion, say, day +2 more
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Translations
Noun chance for advancement, progress or profit
- Spanish
- oportunidad
- French
- occasion
- German
- Gelegenheit
- Italian
- occasione
- Portuguese
- oportunidade
- Turkish
- fırsat
- Russian
- возмо́жность vozmóžnostʹ
- Arabic
- فُرْصَة furṣa
- Chinese
- 机会 jīhuì
- Japanese
- 機会 kikai
28 more languages
- Dutch
- kans
- Polish
- szansa
- Swedish
- tillfälle
- Greek
- ευκαιρία efkairía
- Korean
- 찬스 chanseu
- Indonesian
- kesempatan
- Vietnamese
- cơ hội
- Hungarian
- alkalom
- Portuguese (PT)
- oportunidade
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 機會 jīhuì
- Albanian
- mundësi
- Catalan
- oportunitat
- Czech
- příležitost
- Danish
- mulighed
- Esperanto
- okazo
- Estonian
- võimalus
- Finnish
- tilaisuus
- Georgian
- შანსი šansi
- Hebrew
- הִזְדַּמְּנוּת hizdamnut
- Icelandic
- tækifæri
- Latvian
- iespēja
- Norwegian
- mulighet
- Romanian
- oportunitate
- Serbo-Croatian
- prilika
- Slovak
- príležitosť
- Slovenian
- priložnost
- Swahili
- fursa
- Welsh
- cyfle
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. opportunité, L. opportunitas. See Opportune.
1. Fit or convenient time or situation; a time or place permitting or favorable for the execution of a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
2. Convenience of situation; fitness. obsolete
Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs.— John Milton
3. Importunity; earnestness. obsolete Taylor, Jeremy
Synonyms: Occasion; convenience; occurrence. — Opportunity, Occasion. An occasion is that which falls in our way, or presents itself in the course of events; an opportunity is a convenience or fitness of time, place, etc., for the doing of a thing. Hence, occasions often make opportunities. The occasion of sickness may give opportunity for reflection.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC