- nouncase (noun) · cases (plural noun)
- an instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring:"a case of mistaken identity" · "in many cases, valid statistics are not available"
- the situation affecting or relating to a particular person or thing; one's circumstances or position:"I'll make an exception in your case"
- an incident or set of circumstances under police investigation:"a murder case"
- an instance of a disease or problem:"200,000 cases of hepatitis B"
- a person or their particular problem requiring or receiving medical or welfare attention:"most breast cancer cases were older women" · "urgent cases were turned away from the hospital" · "the welfare office discussed Gerald's case"
- informala person whose situation is regarded as pitiable or as having no chance of improvement:"Vicky was a very sad case"
- informaldatedan amusing or eccentric person.
- a legal action, especially one to be decided in a court of law:"a libel case" · "a former employee brought the case against the council"
- a set of facts or arguments supporting one side in a legal action:"the case for the defense"
- a legal action that has been decided and may be cited as a precedent.
- a set of facts or arguments supporting one side of a debate or controversy:"the case against tobacco advertising"
- grammarany of the inflected forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the sentence:"the accusative case"
- the relation of a grammatical case to other words in the sentence, whether indicated by inflection or not:"English normally expresses case by the use of prepositions"
OriginOld English casus (in case), from Latin casus ‘fall’, related to cadere ‘to fall’; subsequently reinforced by Old French cas; in case directly from Latin, translating Greek ptōsis, literally ‘fall’.nouncase (noun) · cases (plural noun)- a container designed to hold or protect something:"he placed the trumpet safely in its velvet-lined case"
- the outer protective covering of a natural or manufactured object:"a seed case"
- an item of luggage; a suitcase.
- a box containing bottles or cans of a beverage, sold as a unit:"there are twelve bottles of champagne in a case"
verbcase (verb) · cases (third person present) · cased (past tense) · cased (past participle) · casing (present participle)- surround in a material or substance:"the towers are of steel cased in granite"
- enclose in a protective container:"he cased his glasses carefully and walked out"
- informalreconnoiter (a place) before carrying out a robbery:"I was casing the joint"
Originlate Middle English: from Old French casse, chasse (modern caisse ‘trunk, chest’, châsse ‘reliquary, frame’), from Latin capsa, related to capere ‘to hold’.Similar and Opposite Wordsnoun- an instance of a particular situation; an example of something occurring:
- an instance of a disease or problem:
- a legal action, especially one to be decided in a court of law:
- a set of facts or arguments supporting one side of a debate or controversy:
- any of the inflected forms of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that express the semantic relation of the word to other words in the sentence:
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