Definition/Meaning of accident

• English - Noun: accident (countable and uncountable, plural accidents) (countable, uncountable) An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans. to die by an accident such as an act of God c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”,…
• English - Adjective: accident (not comparable) (not comparable) Designating any form of transport ation involved in an accident. The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.
• English - References: Elisabetta Lonati, "Allas, the shorte throte, the tendre mouth": the sins of the mouth in The Canterbury Tales , in Thou sittest at another boke , volume 3 (2008, ISSN 1974-0603), page 253: "the cooks "turnen substance into accident" (Pd 539), transform the raw material , its natural essence , into the outward aspect by which it is known ." Barbara Fass Leavy , To Blight With Plague: Studies in…
• English - External links: accident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913 accident in The Century Dictionary , The Century Co ., New York , 1911 accident at OneLook Dictionary Search
• English - Etymology: First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident , from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns , present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence , case . In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.