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Meaning of ocasión | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
ɔkaˈsjoŋ

Definitions

  1. occasion; opportunity
    masculine
  2. misfortune
    dated, masculine

Equivalents

English occasion

Examples

“1391, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", in Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 160”

under such a condition that they should maintain and repair [these houses], and if they happen to fall because of any circumstance, that they should rebuild them

“Conteçe aas uezes que por caiom nas junturas ou nos jeollos ou nos pees ou en outra parte do Cauallo entra espina ou estrepe ou escadeẽa de madeiro et fica ontre a carne en algũa maneira daquella chaga jncha todo arredor, et as uezes toda a coyxa moormente see a espina ou a escadeẽa tange alguun neruo, que faz o Cauallo çopegar.”

It sometimes happens, because of a misfortune, that in the joints or the knees or the feet of in another part of the horse enters a thorn or a spike or a splinter, and then it stays in between the meat; and somehow from that wound swells everything which is around, and sometimes all the thigh, mostly when the thorn or splinter touches any nerve, which causes the horse to limp

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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