Čo znamená coincidence v angličtine a aká je definícia coincidence?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť coincidence výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

coincidence Význam & definícia

0 an occasion when two or more similar things happen at the same time, especially in a way that is unlikely and surprising:
- You chose exactly the same wallpaper as us - what a coincidence!
- Is it just a coincidence that the wife of the man who ran the competition won first prize?
- a series of strange/amazing coincidences
1 chance or luck:
- Just by coincidence, I met my old schoolmate again 50 years later.
- [ + that ] It was pure/sheer coincidence that I remembered his phone number.
- By some strange coincidence, he was passing the house just when it happened.
2 an occasion when two or more things happen at the same time, esp. in a way that is unexpected or unlikely, or the unlikely fact of such things happening at the same time:
- [ C ] Was our meeting here a coincidence?
- [ U ] By coincidence, both teams happen to be coached by men.

We hadn't planned to be in France at the same time as Ann and Charles - it was just a happy coincidence.
Meeting you here in Rome is a remarkable coincidence.
By some extraordinary coincidence, I sat down right opposite your mother in the train.
Do you think it was just a coincidence that she chose her own granddaughter's picture for first prize?
There were a whole series of spooky coincidences - for example we both married men with the same name and on the same day.
We hadn't planned to be in France at the same time as Ann and Charles - it was just a happy coincidence.
Meeting you here in Rome is a remarkable coincidence.
By some extraordinary coincidence, I sat down right opposite your mother in the train.