{
    "term": "coincidence",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the fact of two things happening at the same time by chance, in a surprising way",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**a strange/an extraordinary/a remarkable coincidence**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**What a coincidence!** I wasn't expecting to see you here."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's **not a coincidence that** none of the directors are women *(= it did not happen by chance)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**By (sheer) coincidence**, I met the person we’d been discussing the next day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "By an unfortunate coincidence, their house was burgled on the day he lost his job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "By coincidence, we both went to the same school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was pure coincidence that they were both in Paris on the same day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Remarkable coincidences do happen in real life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They met through a series of strange coincidences."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What a happy coincidence to meet you at the airport just when I wanted to see you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "By sheer coincidence, I met the person we'd been discussing the next day."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["complete", "pure", "sheer"],
                "… of coincidences": ["series", "set", "string"],
                "coincidence + verb": ["happen"],
                "preposition": ["by (a) coincidence"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the fact of things being present at the same time",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the coincidence of inflation and unemployment"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the fact of two or more opinions, etc. being the same",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a coincidence of interests between the two partners"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/",
                "audio": "co/coincidence/coincidence__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/",
                "audio": "co/coincidence/coincidence__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘occupation of the same space’): from medieval Latin coincidentia, from coincidere ‘coincide, agree’, from co- ‘together with’ + incidere ‘fall upon or into’."
}