circumstance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   formal ceremony about important occasions

   pomp and circumstance

2. 2
   noun

   Something which is related to, or in some way affects, a fact or event.

   The report should focus on to the current circumstances of the organisation, to help us find a way to grow in the future.

3. 3
   noun

   An event; a fact; a particular incident, occurrence, or condition (status).

   I have ſeen Two or Three antique Buſts of Alexander in the ſame Air and Poſture, and am apt to think the Sculptor had in his Thoughts the Conqueror's weeping for new Worlds, or ſome other the like Circumſtance of his History.

4. 4
   noun

   Evasive or indirect language; circumlocution.

   Right, you are in the right, and therefore / I holde it meet without more circumſtance at all, / Wee ſhake hands and part; […]

5. 5
   noun

   Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

   She was born into comfortable circumstances.

6. 6
   verb

   To place in a particular situation, especially with regard to money or other resources.

   Frank muttered something. Tidings had in some shape reached his ears that his father was not comfortably circumstanced as regarded money.

7. 7
   noun

   information that should be kept in mind when making a decision

8. 8
   noun

   a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity

Etymology

From Middle English circumstaunce, from Old French circonstance, from Latin circumstantia.