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"sense": "of a person: trendy, up-to-the-minute",
"word": "trendikäs"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "oshare",
"sense": "of a person: trendy, up-to-the-minute",
"word": "おしゃれ"
}
],
"word": "happening"
}
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"English 3-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
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"name": "inh"
},
{
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"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English happenyng, equivalent to happen + -ing. As term used in performance art popularized by Allan Kaprow.",
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"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 271",
"text": "Three follow-up singles, all ecological or religious in theme, did chart in the lower reaches of the Hot 100. Thereafter, Ocean remained a Canadian happening.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Something that happens."
]
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"ref": "1989, “Salvador Dali's Garden Party”, in Privilege, performed by Television Personalities",
"text": "And it was some kind of happening / Some kind of happening / Salvador Dali's garden party",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation."
],
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"art#Noun"
],
[
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"spontaneous"
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[
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"improvise"
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[
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"event"
],
[
"audience",
"audience"
],
[
"participation",
"participation"
]
],
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"(originally art) A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation."
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈhæpənɪŋ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæpɪnɪŋ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhæpnɪŋ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[hæpnɪn]"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-happening.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/En-us-happening.ogg/En-us-happening.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/En-us-happening.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎbitie",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "събитие"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "slučka",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "случка"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "something that happens",
"word": "tapahtuma"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "notikums"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "įvykis"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "atsitikimas"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Väafaul"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zdarzenie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "acontecimento"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "întâmplare"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tuiteamas"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "dogodek"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something that happens",
"word": "händelse"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "something that happens",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skeende"
},
{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "something that happens",
"word": "wäntare"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation",
"word": "improvisoitu esitys"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation",
"word": "happening"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Happening"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "happening"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "a spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tuiteamas"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Allan Kaprow"
],
"word": "happening"
}
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