Meaning of accident In English

• 0 something bad that happens that is not expected or intended and that often damages something or injures someone:

  • Josh had an accident and spilled water all over his work.

  • She was injured in a car/road accident (= when one car hit another).

  • It was no accident that she was standing there at that precise moment.

  • I like to think it is not just accident that hidden in the word "created" are the letters R-E-A-D.

  • Social status is often merely an accident of birth.

  • He became president by an accident of history.

• 1 an event not intended by anyone but which has the result of injuring someone or damaging something:

  • He was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 21.

• 2 something that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally:

  • It’s no accident that (= There are reasons that explain why) she was chosen to be a member of the most powerful committee in Congress.