different between venture vs occasion

English

Etymology

Clipping of adventure.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?n.t???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?n.t???/
• Hyphenation: ven?ture

Noun

venture (plural ventures)

1. A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
2. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.

   Synonyms: accident, chance, contingency
3. The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.

   Synonym: stake

Hyponyms

• business venture
• joint venture

Translations

Verb

venture (third-person singular simple present ventures, present participle venturing, simple past and past participle ventured)

1. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.

   • who freights a ship to venture on the seas

2. (transitive) To risk or offer.
3. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on
4. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.

5. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
6. (transitive) To say something.

Derived terms

• venture capital

Related terms

• venturesome
• venturous

Translations

Further reading

• venture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• venture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Adjective

venture

1. feminine plural of venturo

Noun

venture f

1. plural of ventura

Latin

Participle

vent?re

1. vocative masculine singular of vent?rus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French occasion, from Old French occasiun, from Latin occasionem (accusative of occasio), noun of action from perfect passive participle occasus, from verb occido, from prefix ob- (“down", "away”) + verb cado (“fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: oc?ca?sion

Noun

occasion (countable and uncountable, plural occasions)

1. A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance. [from 14th c.]
   • 1690, Edmund Waller, The Maids Tragedy Alter'd

     I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.
2. The time when something happens.

3. An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason. [from 14th c.]

4. Something which causes something else; a cause. [from 14th c.]
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:

     it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government [...].

5. (obsolete) An occurrence or incident. [14th-18th c.]
6. A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred. [from 15th c.]
7. Need; requirement, necessity. [from 16th c.]
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     after we have served ourselves and our own occasions

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     when my occasions took me into France

8. A special event or function. [from 19th c.]

9. A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.

Derived terms

• occasional
• on occasion
• rise to the occasion

Translations

Verb

occasion (third-person singular simple present occasions, present participle occasioning, simple past and past participle occasioned)

1. (transitive) To cause; to produce; to induce

   it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin occ?si?nem (accusative of occ?si?). Compare the inherited Old French ochoison, achaison (the latter being influenced by Latin acc?s?ti?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.ka.zj??/

Noun

occasion f (plural occasions)

1. occasion, opportunity
2. cause
3. bargain, good deal
4. secondhand or used item

Derived terms

Further reading

• “occasion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).