circumstance

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

cir·cum·stance (sûrʹkəm-stăns')n.
1. A condition or fact attending an event and having some bearing on it; a determining or modifying factor.
2. A condition or fact that determines or must be considered in the determining of a course of action.
3. The sum of determining factors beyond willful control. Often used in the plural:
a victim of circumstance; work that will begin on Monday if circumstances permit.
4. circumstances Financial status or means: “Prior came of a good family, much reduced in circumstances” (George Sherburn).
5. Detail accompanying or surrounding an event, as in a narrative or series of events.
6. Formal display; ceremony:
the pomp and circumstance of a coronation.
7. A particular incident or occurrence:
Your arrival was a fortunate circumstance.
See Synonyms at occurrence.tr.v. cir·cum·stanced, cir·cum·stanc·ing, cir·cum·stanc·es
To place in particular circumstances or conditions; situate.Idioms:under no circumstances
In no case; never.under/in the circumstances
Given these conditions; such being the case. [Middle English, from Old French circonstance, from Latin circumstantia, from circumstāns, circumstant- present participle of circumstāre, to stand around : circum-, circum- + stāre, to stand; See stā- in Indo-European Roots.]

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  condition, consideration, context, setting