circumstances
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
How often you will meet it
Rank 882 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 20,898 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) also: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, portion whatever my fortune may bedeserved a better fate
- a person's financial situation (good or bad) he found himself in straitened circumstances
circumstances in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But one look at Jim's anxious face recalled their circumstances.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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I will therefore briefly set down the circumstances which led to my being connected with the affair.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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But even under these circumstances he still gained ground, when suddenly the whole aspect of the battle was changed.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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And, the pact concluded and solemnly sworn, they had parted without knowing when propitious circumstances might bring them together again.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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His worldly goods he never threw In trust to fortune’s chances, But lived (as all his brothers do) In easy circumstances.
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1