incident
a single distinct event
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,596 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,450 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a single distinct event
- a public disturbance the police investigated an incident at the bus station
adjective
- falling or striking of light rays on something incident light
- (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence also: incidental incidental expensesthe road will bring other incidental advantages
incident 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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I hoped that this incident might set up some more direct communication between us.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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When he has been vindicating privileges of Commons, can Members thus lightly treat incident?
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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The incident occurs as a detached story in China, and in most European countries it is told of a crusader.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
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I mention the incident to show that, although I went blackberrying armed, there was not much inequality between me and the bear.
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1
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The Fifth were civil to him, recognizing, perhaps, the expediency of leaving him alone ever since the incident of the cricket stump.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1