"happen upon" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "happens upon",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "happening upon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "happened upon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "happened upon",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "happen upon (third-person singular simple present happens upon, present participle happening upon, simple past and past participle happened upon)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (upon)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club",
          "text": "The old haunt that defines “Dragonstone” isn’t Dragonstone, though. It’s the house of that peasant father who took in the Hound and Arya, fed them, and gave them a good night’s sleep only to be robbed. In the present, the Brotherhood Without Banners happens upon the man’s house.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To accidentally encounter a person or situation; to chance upon, happen on or stumble across."
      ],
      "id": "en-happen_upon-en-verb-K5ognXzV",
      "links": [
        [
          "accidentally",
          "accidentally"
        ],
        [
          "encounter",
          "encounter"
        ],
        [
          "chance upon",
          "chance upon"
        ],
        [
          "happen on",
          "happen on"
        ],
        [
          "stumble across",
          "stumble across"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "egy",
          "lang": "Egyptian",
          "roman": "gmj",
          "sense": "to accidentally encounter a person or situation",
          "word": "gm-m"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "natrapljáty",
          "sense": "to accidentally encounter a person or situation",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "натрапля́ти"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "natrápyty",
          "sense": "to accidentally encounter a person or situation",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "натра́пити"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "happen upon"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "happens upon",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "happening upon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "happened upon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "happened upon",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "happen upon (third-person singular simple present happens upon, present participle happening upon, simple past and past participle happened upon)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (upon)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club",
          "text": "The old haunt that defines “Dragonstone” isn’t Dragonstone, though. It’s the house of that peasant father who took in the Hound and Arya, fed them, and gave them a good night’s sleep only to be robbed. In the present, the Brotherhood Without Banners happens upon the man’s house.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To accidentally encounter a person or situation; to chance upon, happen on or stumble across."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "accidentally",
          "accidentally"
        ],
        [
          "encounter",
          "encounter"
        ],
        [
          "chance upon",
          "chance upon"
        ],
        [
          "happen on",
          "happen on"
        ],
        [
          "stumble across",
          "stumble across"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "egy",
      "lang": "Egyptian",
      "roman": "gmj",
      "sense": "to accidentally encounter a person or situation",
      "word": "gm-m"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "natrapljáty",
      "sense": "to accidentally encounter a person or situation",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "натрапля́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "natrápyty",
      "sense": "to accidentally encounter a person or situation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "натра́пити"
    }
  ],
  "word": "happen upon"
}