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Definition: Opportunity |
OpportunityNoun1. A possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "opportunity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Satire | OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Opportunity is a town located in Spokane County, Washington. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 25,065.Geography
Opportunity is located at 47°38'49" North, 117°14'28" West (47.646994, -117.241064)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 17.3 km² (6.7 mi²). 17.3 km² (6.7 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 25,065 people, 10,242 households, and 6,667 families residing in the town. The population density is 1,446.6/km² (3,746.8/mi²). There are 10,827 housing units at an average density of 624.9/km² (1,618.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 93.52% White, 1.01% African American, 1.01% Native American, 1.29% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 0.63% from other races, and 2.45% from two or more races. 2.67% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 10,242 households out of which 31.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.7% are married couples living together, 12.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.9% are non-families. 28.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.42 and the average family size is 2.95. In the town the population is spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 14.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 91.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 87.4 males. The median income for a household in the town is $38,658, and the median income for a family is $44,230. Males have a median income of $35,435 versus $25,860 for females. The per capita income for the town is $18,116. 9.0% of the population and 6.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 10.7% are under the age of 18 and 6.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Opportunity, Washington."
Synonym: OpportunitySynonym: chance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Look sharp; have all one's eyes about one; (vigilance); rise, arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march, kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity; lose no time, not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash off; make haste; do one's best take pains; (exert oneself); do wonders, work wonders. |
Earliness | Suddenly; (instantaneously); before one can say "Jack Robinson", at short notice, extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; at once; on the spot, on the instant; at sight; offhand, out of hand; a' vue d'oeil; straight, straightway, straightforth; forthwith, incontinently, summarily, immediately, briefly, shortly, quickly, speedily, apace, before the ink is dry, almost immediately, presently at the first opportunity, in no long time, by and by, in a while, directly. |
Eventuality | Business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion). |
Lateness | Lose an opportunity; be kept waiting, dance attendance; kick one's heels, cool one's heels; faire antichambre; wait impatiently; await; (expect); sit up, sit up at night. |
Occasion | Verb: seize; (take) an opportunity, use; an opportunity, give; an opportunity, use an occasion; improve the occasion. |
Nick of time; golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening; clear stage, fair field; mollia tempora; fata Morgana; spare time; (leisure). | |
Noun: {ant. } timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room; event (eventuality); suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness; Adjective: tempestivity. | |
Time | Pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time, talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity; waste time; (be inactive). |
Untimeliness | Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I would like to take this opportunity to apologize in advance (The Iron Giant; writing credit: Brad Bird) And all I ask in return is the opportunity to do my work (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) I'm giving you the opportunity to walk out with the money, Mr. Bond (The World Is Not Enough; writing credit: Neal Purvis; Robert Wade) Today is tomorrow's tadpole of opportunity. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin) You may not get another opportunity like this (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Lyrics | Feet fail me not this may be the only opportunity that I got (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) Look, if you had, one shot, or one opportunity (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) With an equal opportunity (Sir Duke; performing artist: Stevie Wonder) | |
Clever | Failure is opportunity in disguise. (references; author: unknown) Mines are equal opportunity weapons. (references; author: unknown) Never pass up an opportunity to pee. (references; author: unknown) Without risk, there is no opportunity for gain. (references; author: unknown) Learn to listen. Opportunity often knocks softly. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Door of Opportunity (1970) Opportunity Knocks (1956) The Land of Opportunity (1920) Opportunity (1918) His Great Opportunity (1914) | |
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 | Six amateur astronomers will have a rare opportunity to use NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope to ... Credit: NASA. |  | Dead end for some - opportunity for others. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | The NF-16D VISTA will give the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., flexibility by providing one aircraft that can play the role of several fighters. It also provides students an opportunity to learn how to test future integra. |  | [Affirmative Action Plan for Equal Employment Opportunity at NIH]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | ALCOHOLISM...is an Equal Opportunity Disease. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Your opportunity. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Tsar's great opportunity. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | 'We want the Olympics to be a pure sporting event -- not an opportunity for the Western news media to lionize dissidents and to play politics'. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Congratulations, Bob! there's an opportunity ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Garden of opportunity. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | A sign on the door of Opportunity reads "Push." |
| Opportunity always looks better going than coming. | |
Francis Bacon | Opportunity makes a thief. |
John Dryden | Thou strong seducer, Opportunity! |
Milton Berle | If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Ability is of little account without opportunity. |
Publilius Syrus | Opportunity is lost by deliberation. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | America is only another name for opportunity. |
Seneca | Calamity is virtue's opportunity. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | They will wish, and seek for the opportunity, which in the change, weakness and accidents of human affairs, seldom delays long to offer itself. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | By this, the long wished-for opportunity was offered to "True" Socialism of confronting the political movement with the Socialist demands, of hurling the traditional anathemas against liberalism, against representative government, against bourgeois competition, bourgeois freedom of the press, bourgeois legislation, bourgeois liberty and equality, and of preaching to the masses that they had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by this bourgeois movement. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | This Commission shall consider the claims and give to the German Government a just opportunity to be heard. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Opportunity is here now, clear and shining for both our countries. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1928) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | She had an opportunity now of speaking her approbation while warm from her heart, for he stopped to hand her out. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The opportunity instantly presented itself |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Few secrets can escape an investigator, who has opportunity and license to undertake such a quest, and skill to follow it up. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His great talents had no adequate opportunity. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And he put himself in a good position of defense, for Ruthie would attack him at the first opportunity, and he knew it. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | However, it was not long before I had an opportunity of doing his Majesty, at least, as I then thought, a most signal service |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I had a rare opportunity to become acquainted with their habits |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For each opportunity, time to fall asleep is measured. (references) | |
The next most likely opportunity for diagnosis is when the child begins school. (references) | ||
Early recognition and prompt treatment provide the greatest opportunity for recovery. (references) | ||
Business | A special opportunity lies in the field of IT training. (references) | |
This opens opportunity to firms with experience in such projects. (references) | ||
However, the groundwater sector presents a good import opportunity. (references) | ||
Children | Austria | Educational opportunity is equal for girls and boys. (references) |
Guatemala | It stipulates equal opportunity for persons with disabilities in health, education, work, recreation, sports, and cultural activities. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Labor laws intended to protect the interests of persons with disabilities and create greater employment opportunity have had a mixed effect. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Venezuela | None of the 800 Colombians was given the opportunity to apply for refugee status. (references) |
Ethiopia | Approximately 90 detainees took advantage of this opportunity, with most going to African countries, particularly Uganda and Malawi. (references) | |
Belize | There were an estimated 22 refugees receiving UNHCR assistance and awaiting the opportunity to apply for asylum in the country at year's end. (references) | |
Discrimination | Hong Kong | Human rights activists generally considered the Government's Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) an ally in the fight against discrimination. (references) |
Saint Lucia | Neither the Constitution nor the law address discrimination specifically; however, government policy is nondiscriminatory in the areas of housing, jobs, education, and opportunity for advancement. (references) | |
Hong Kong | An Equal Opportunities Commission has been established to work toward the elimination of discrimination and to promote equality of opportunity with specific reference to gender, disability, and family status. (references) | |
Economic History | India | Retailing is the next big franchising opportunity. (references) |
Kenya | Ostrich farming presents the best investment opportunity. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | The major opportunity for foreign investors is in the equity market. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nigeria | By law police must provide suspects with the opportunity to engage counsel and post bail. (references) |
Maldives | Prisoners are allowed to work and are given the opportunity for regular exercise and recreation. (references) | |
Argentina | They do not always provide such detainees with the opportunity to call their families or an attorney. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Mexico | Among its basic demands, the EZLN called on the Government to enact measures to protect indigenous cultures, provide more opportunity for employment, and invest in schools, clinics, and infrastructure projects. (references) |
Minorities | Sri Lanka | Thousands of Catholics took the opportunity to visit the shrine. (references) |
Ecuador | They suffer widespread poverty and pervasive discrimination, particularly with regard to educational and economic opportunity. (references) | |
Political Economy | HUNGARY | The United States has urged Hungary to rectify this situation at every possible opportunity. (references) |
Vietnam | Foreign investors appreciate the opportunity to be consulted on issues of importance to them. (references) | |
Sudan | The General Education Act stipulates equal opportunity in education for persons with disabilities. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kuwait | Women have little opportunity to influence government. (references) |
Belarus | The environment did not provide an equal opportunity for contestants nor for the possibility for the public to be informed about the choices available. (references) | |
Bangladesh | All of the major parties have boycotted Parliament while in the opposition, claiming that they had little opportunity to engage in real debate on legislation and national issues. (references) | |
Trade | Venezuela | The latter represents a business opportunity for most foreign banks. (references) |
India | For many American companies, ADB projects represent an attractive opportunity for business in Asia. (references) | |
Senegal | Senegal is also currently eligible for benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). (references) | |
Travel | Eq. Guinea | Equato-Guineans appreciate an opportunity to "get to know" a potential partner before beginning concrete discussions. (references) |
Japan | A request to meet only with English speaking staff can mean missing the opportunity to become acquainted with higher-ranking executives. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Meetings, including lunches or dinners, are used as an opportunity to get acquainted and as a basis for developing a relationship of trust. (references) | |
Women | San Marino | Reportedly most children of citizens residing abroad did not take this opportunity during the year. (references) |
Liechtenstein | No case of gender discrimination had been brought to court under the 1999 Equal Opportunity Law by year's end. (references) | |
Sierra Leone | In rural areas, women perform much of the subsistence farming and have little opportunity for formal education. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Bulgaria | They also believe it impedes the opportunity for a genuine trade union to represent medical professionals. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Aluminj Mostar has protested the ILO ruling, arguing that it did not have the opportunity to respond to the union complaint. (references) | |
Belgium | This committee meets several times a year under the auspices of the Center for Equal Opportunity and the Fight Against Racism. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FELON, n. A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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John Mills | We were never successful in locating Mildred, although we worked for many months in trying to get contact with her and in trying to get John back into courts so that he would have some opportunity to get back together with his kids. |
Robert Novak | But Dr. Lindsey, let's be candid. There are people on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill, in Congress, who have taken this war as an opportunity to really open the floodgates on spending, raising appropriations far above your proposal. |
Rush Limbaugh | The Clinton administration sought every opportunity to divide the people of this country by group. |
Stephen Engelberg | Well, I don't think any journalist in the world would want to turn down that opportunity, although at this point I think it gets kind of tricky. I think the logistics are even more challenging than John has suggested, which are bad enough. |
Victoria Principal | I come from an era where I had to do it by the seat of my pants, but I've very grateful that I'm having the opportunity to mentor younger women and nurture them and see them explore areas that weren't necessarily open to me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government, more than of air, soil, or climate, for themselves or their children! |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Fellow-citizens, you are acquainted with the peculiar circumstances of the recent election, which have resulted in affording me the opportunity of addressing you at this time. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Such a treasure would doubtless be employed at some time, as it has been in other countries, when opportunity tempted ambition. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | That regime adheres to a false philosophy which purports to offer freedom, security, and greater opportunity to mankind. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | From adversity, let us seize opportunity. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This is a precious opportunity for a historic settlement of a longstanding conflict, an opportunity which may never come again in our lifetime. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But a second American Revolution must carry the promise of opportunity for all. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Civil rights are also crucial to protecting equal opportunity. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Opportunity and responsibility go hand-in-hand. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Many schools in our country are places of hope and opportunity. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Opportunity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.78% of the time. "Opportunity" is used about 10,131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.78% | 10,109 | 924 |
| Noun (common) | 0.13% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10,131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "opportunity". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Calah | N/A | Biblical | Opportunity |
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | American Opportunity Trust PLC |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Opportunity, WA (CDP, FIPS 51515) |
Expressions using "opportunity": A Great Opportunity for Rural Areas ♦ at the earliest opportunity ♦ at the first opportunity ♦ catch the opportunity ♦ competing opportunity model ♦ employment opportunity ♦ equal opportunity ♦ give an opportunity ♦ golden opportunity ♦ if the opportunity offers ♦ improve the opportunity ♦ intervening opportunity model ♦ land of Opportunity ♦ let an opportunity slip ♦ lose a good opportunity ♦ lose an opportunity ♦ miss an opportunity ♦ miss the opportunity ♦ missing an opportunity ♦ opportunity chart ♦ opportunity cost ♦ opportunity for advancement ♦ opportunity makes the thief ♦ opportunity Management System ♦ opportunity occasion ♦ opportunity target ♦ opportunity to see ♦ pass up an opportunity ♦ photo opportunity ♦ political opportunity ♦ presently at the first opportunity ♦ seize an opportunity ♦ seize the first opportunity for picking a quarrel ♦ seize the opportunity ♦ snap at the opportunity ♦ take an opportunity ♦ take the opportunity ♦ target of opportunity ♦ unique opportunity ♦ United States Office of Economic Opportunity ♦ wait for an opportunity ♦ watch for an opportunity. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "opportunity": opportunity-seeking, opportunity-thinking, opportunity-to-create. | |
Ending with "opportunity": photo-opportunity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "opportunity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | voorval (event, occasion, occurence), insident (event, occasion, occurence), geleentheid (chance, event, occurence), gebeurtenis (chance, event, occasion, occurence). (various references) | |
Albanian | shans (chance, fortuity, hap, hazard, hit, look in, luck, odds, opening, possibility, prayer), mundësi (capability, capacity, chance, eventuality, handle, ingress, likelihood, look in, odds, possibility, potential, potentiality, power, presumption, probability, scope, space, wherewithal). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرصة (break, chance, holiday, occasion, scope, show, way), مناسبة (appropriateness, occasion, relation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | удобен случай (chance, occasion, opening), удобен момент (time), благоприятна възможност, подходяща възможност. (various references) | |
Chinese | 時機 (occasion), 机会 (Chance, Opportunities), 机 (be straight and stiff, machine, rather, secret), 機會 (chance, occasion), 機 (machine, secret). (various references) | |
Czech | příležitost (chance, occasion, time), pøíležitost, možnost (choice, contingency, course, eventuality, eventually, facility, possibility, potentiality, scope). (various references) | |
Danish | tildragelse (event, occasion, occurence). (various references) | |
Dutch | incident (event, occasion, occurence), gebeurtenis (chance, event, occasion, occurence), gebeuren (become, come about, event, grow, happen, occasion, occur, occurence). (various references) | |
Esperanto | okazo (chance, event, occurence), okazaĵo (event, occasion, occurence). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hending (chance, episode, event, occurence), høvi (chance, event, occurence). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرصت (Breather, Chance, Leisure, Season, Shot, Space, Start, Time, Vantage), فراغت (Leisure, Relief), مجال (Chance, Leisure, Room, Time), دست یافت . (various references) | |
Finnish | tilaisuus (chance, function, occasion, social occasion). (various references) | |
French | occasion (opening). (various references) | |
Frisian | foarfal (chance, event, occurence). (various references) | |
German | Gelegenheit (chance, event, facility, instance, occasion, occurence, window), Kaufgelegenheit. (various references) | |
Greek | ευκαιρία (bargain, chance, chance of, occasion, opportunity for, scope). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | chans. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "ז"מ ות (break, chance, occasion, occurrence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | alkalom (break, chance, expedience, expediency, handle, occasion, opening, peg, slant, time), kedvező alkalom (chance, expediency, vantage), alkalmas idő. (various references) | |
Icelandic | tilefni (chance, event, occurence). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sempat (have sufficient time), peluang (chance), kesempatan (chance, facility, ocassion). (various references) | |
Italian | opportunit (advisability, chance, expedience, expediency, fitness, occasion, opening, opportuneness, possibility, suitability, timeliness), occorrenza (chance, eventuality, necessity, need, occasion), occasione (bargain, cause, chance, occasion), pretesto (cloak, color, colour, evasion, excuse, handle, occasion, peg, plea, pretence, pretense, pretext), momento (bit, factor, feature, importance, instant, jiff, minute, Mo, moment, momentum, period, present, significance, time, while), modo (expression, manner, manners, means, measure, mode, mood, outlook, rate, way, wise), eventualit (contingency, event, eventuality, possibility, possible event). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 序 (foreword, occasion, preface), 契機 (chance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | チャンス (chance), きぎ (all kinds of trees, every tree, fear, frisking, frolicing, many trees, misgivings, occasion), しおあい (a great opportunity, chance, the tidal hour), しお (ebb and flood, salt, salt water, tide), きう" (luck, tendency, trend), きかい (chance, instrument, machine, mechanism, mysterious, outrageous, shogi circles, strange, the goworld, weird, wonderful), きえ" (abandonment, big talking, chance, donation, high spirits, strange coincidence), び" (becoming poor, bottle, chance, flight, letter, living in poverty, mail, post, poverty, service), でばな (beginning of work, chance of going out, first brew of tea, moment of departure, outset, projecting part, starting out), ではな (beginning of work, chance of going out, moment of departure, outset, projecting part, starting out), では (beginning of work, chance of going out, moment of departure), ついで (next, occasion, secondly, subsequently), けいき (business, chance, condition, gauge, light machine gun, meter, occurring in succession, prison term, state), じせつ (occasion, one's cherished opinion, one's personal opinion, season, the times), じき (abandonment, at once, being straight, chance, cheerfulness, china, correctness, despair, desperation, direct, frankness, honesty, in person, just, magnetism, near by, next period, next term, night duty, period, porcelain, season, seasons, self-recording, simplicity, soon, time, writing oneself). (various references) | |
Korean | 기회 (Chance, Opportunities). (various references) | |
Manx | caaoileyder, caa (chance, occasion; croaking). (various references) | |
Norwegian | anledning (chance, event, occurence). (various references) | |
Papiamen | akontesimientu (chance, event, occurence). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | opportunityay.(various references) | |
Polish | okazja (chance, event, occurence), zdarzenie (chance, event, occurence), przypadek (accidence, accident, chance, event, hazard, occurence). (various references) | |
Portuguese | oportunidade (break, chance, fitness, occasion, room, scope, timeliness). (various references) | |
Romanian | ocazie favorabilã (chance), prilej favorabil, moment potrivit (occasion). (various references) | |
Russian | удобный случай (handle), возможность (capabilities, chance, enablement, eventuality, feasibility, occasion, opening, opportunities, position, possibility, pot luck, potential, potentiality, resource, room, turn). (various references) | |
Scottish | seòl (a sail, a sail Irish seól, direct, instruct, manner, method, mode, navigate, point out, sail, show; sail, way), f th (a cause, reason, vista), cothrom (fairplay, justice). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zgoda (chance, event, occasion), prilika (chance, circumstance, condition, occasion, room, shape), mogućnost (eventuality, liability, possibility, potential, potentiality). (various references) | |
Slovene | prilike. (various references) | |
Spanish | acontecimiento (affair, chance, event, happening, occasion, occurence, occurrence), oportunidad (advisability, appropriateness, break, chance, competence, competency, expedience, expediency, innings, occasion, opening, opportuneness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, shot, show, suitability, timeliness, turn). (various references) | |
Sranan | okasi (chance, event, occurence). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillfälle (chance, event, occasion, occurence, opening). (various references) | |
Tagalog | pagkakataon. (various references) | |
Thai | โอกาสที่"ี. (various references) | |
Turkish | uygun durum, fırsat (break, chance, facility, occasion, opening, show, turn), şans (auspiciousness, chance, fluke, flukey, fluky, fortune, good luck, hap, hazard, hit, inning, innings, luck, odds, shot, show, star, turnup). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | слушна нагода. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cơ hội (peg, time, time-serving). (various references) | |
Welsh | egwyl (lull, respite), cyfleuster (convenience), cyfle (chance, place), arfod (armor, battle, fight, guard, occasion, stroke of a weapon), adeg (occasion, time, while), achlysur (advantage, cause, occasion, reason). (various references) | |
Zulu | ithuba (chance, event, occurence), ilithuba (chance, event, occurence). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | occasio. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | byre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai apo tote ezhtei eukairian ina auton paradw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et exinde quaerebat oportunitatem ut eum traderet |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þt he hine wolde be-leawan. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And fro that tyme he souyte oportunyte, to bitraye hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And from that tyme he sought oportunite to betraye him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And from that time he was watching for a chance to give him into their hands. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 26, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Ug sukad niadtong tungora siya nagpangitag higayon sa pagtugyan kaniya. |
| Chinese | 從 那 時 候 、 他 就 找 機 會 、 要 把 耶 穌 交 給 他 們 。 |
| Croatian | Otada je tražio priliku da ga preda. |
| Danish | Og fra den Stund søgte han Lejlighed til at forråde ham. |
| Dutch | En van toen af zocht hij gelegenheid, opdat hij Hem overleveren mocht. |
| Finnish | Ja siitä hetkestä hän etsi sopivaa tilaisuutta kavaltaaksensa hänet. |
| French | Depuis ce moment, il cherchait une occasion favorable pour livrer Jésus. |
| German | Und von dem an suchte er Gelegenheit, daß er ihn verriete. |
| Haitian Creole | Depi lè sa a, Jida t'ap chache yon bon okazyon pou l' te ba yo Jezi. |
| Hungarian | És ettõl fogva alkalmat keres vala, hogy elárulja õt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mulai dari waktu itu Yudas mencari kesempatan yang baik untuk mengkhianati Yesus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Daripada waktu itu Yudas mencari suatu ketika yang baik akan menyerahkan Dia kepada mereka itu. |
| Italian | Da quel momento cercava l'occasione propizia per consegnarlo. |
| Manx Gaelic | As veih'n traa shen v'eh shirrey caa dy vrah eh. |
| Maori | A no reira mai ano ia i rapu ai i te wa pai e tukua ai ia. |
| Norwegian | Og fra den tid av søkte han leilighet til å forråde ham. |
| Portuguese | E desde então buscava ele oportunidade para o entregar. |
| Rumanian | Din clipa aceea, Iuda cquta un prilej nimerit, ca sq dea pe Isus kn mknile lor. |
| Russian | Й У ФПЗП ЧТЕНЕОЙ ПО ЙУЛБМ Х"П'ОПЗП УМХЮБС ТЕ"БФШ еЗП. |
| Shuar | Nu akikiam Jútas itiurak Jesusan Súsaraintiaj tu Enentáimias wekaimiayi. |
| Spanish | y desde entonces él buscaba la oportunidad para entregarle. |
| Swahili | na tangu wakati huo Yuda akawa anatafuta nafasi ya kumsaliti. |
| Swedish | Och från den stunden sökte han efter lägligt tillfälle att förråda honom. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, Yudas mpopali' loga to lompe' mpobalu' Yesus hi bali' -na. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Opportunity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apportunity, opoortuneity, opoprtunity, oportunity, oportunnity, oppartunity, oppertunitty, oppertunity, opporotunity, opportuinity, opportumity, opportuni, opportunityt, opportunty, opportunuty, oppotunity, oppourtunity, oppportunity, opprortunity, opprotunity, opprtunity, oppurtunity, opurtunity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "opportunity" (pronounced Ä'pertuw"nutē) |
| 5 | -uw" n u t ē | community, disunity, immunity, impunity, unity. |
| 4 | -n u t ē | affinity, alkalinity, amenity, dignity, divinity, eternity, femininity, fraternity, humanity, indemnity, indignity, infinity, inhumanity, insanity, masculinity, maternity, modernity, obscenity, paternity, profanity, salinity, sanity, serenity, solemnity, Trinity, vanity, vicinity, virginity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, ambiguity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, diversity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indestructibility, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, materiality, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, sanctity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-n-o-o-p-p-r-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: pourpoint. | |
-3 letters: outpoint, printout, punitory. | |
-4 letters: outpity, outport, portion, tortoni. | |
-5 letters: inpour, intort, option, pointy, potion, pronto, proton, prutot, purity, tiptop, trippy, triton, tropin, trouty, tryout, turnip, unroot, uppity, uproot, uptorn, youpon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Derived from 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Cities 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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