Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

take occasion

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

Syllables: take oc-ca-sion
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To take advantage of an opportunity.

Dated

Example Sentences

"He grew old and fretful, and captious, and I must add, which made the vice itself begin to grow surfeiting and nauseous to me, he grew worse and wickeder the older he grew, and that to such degree as is not fit to write of, and made me so weary of him that upon one of his capricious humours, which he often took occasion to trouble me with, I took occasion to be much less complaisant to him than I used to be; […]"
"Home to dinner, and there I took occasion, from the blacknesse of the meat as it came out of the pot, to fall out with my wife and my maid for their sluttery […]"

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

takes occasion (present, singular) taking occasion (participle, present) took occasion (past) taken occasion (participle, past)

Questions

What does take occasion mean?: To take advantage of an opportunity.

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