occasion

Noun

• an opportunity to do something
  • there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill
    

• the time of a particular event
  • on the occasion of his 60th birthday
    

• reason
  • there was no occasion for complaint
    

• a vaguely specified social event
  • the party was quite an affair
    
  • an occasion arranged to honor the president
    
  • a seemingly endless round of social functions
    

• an event that occurs at a critical time
  • at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave
    
  • it was needed only on special occasions
    

Verb

• give occasion to

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  affair , social occasion , function , social function , juncture