Accident: nm (word coming from the Latin accidens, from accidere “to arise”, from cadere “to fall”, to fall).
The word “accident” has several meanings:
1. Fortuitous, unforeseeable event.
Aged meaning: A happy, unhappy accident.
2. Modern meaning: Non-essential episode.
- Quote from the French writer Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): “Poetry was not my job; it was an accident, a happy adventure”.
Literary phrase: by accident: by chance (fortuitously...
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