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Meaning of happen

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  happen
      v 1: come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place
           off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed
           important" [syn: {happen}, {hap}, {go on}, {pass off},
           {occur}, {pass}, {fall out}, {come about}, {take place}]
      2: happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by
         chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things
         befell" (Santayana) [syn: {happen}, {befall}, {bechance}]
      3: chance to be or do something, without intention or causation;
         "I happen to have just what you need!"
      4: come into being; become reality; "Her dream really
         materialized" [syn: {happen}, {materialize}, {materialise}]
         [ant: {dematerialise}, {dematerialize}]
      5: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea
         in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not
         very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in
         the bookstore the other day" [syn: {find}, {happen},
         {chance}, {bump}, {encounter}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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