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Happening
Definitions
- 1 Busy, lively; vibrant, dynamic; fashionable. slang
"“[…]San Francisco is not exactly the most happening place, you know.”"
- 2 Trendy, up-to-the-minute. slang
"Every show has its hottest, most happening trends. If I were to isolate just one for hardware and one for software, this year's hot hardware would be the 386 machines, and the happening software would be desktop publishing."
- 1 Something that happens.
"Three follow-up singles, all ecological or religious in theme, did chart in the lower reaches of the Hot 100. Thereafter, Ocean remained a Canadian happening."
- 2 an event that happens wordnet
- 3 A spontaneous or improvised event, especially one that involves audience participation.
"And it was some kind of happening / Some kind of happening / Salvador Dali's garden party"
- 1 present participle and gerund of happen form-of, gerund, participle, present
"From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip."
Etymology
From Middle English *happenynge, *happnynge. By surface analysis, happen + -ing.
From Middle English *happenynge, *happnynge. By surface analysis, happen + -ing.
From Middle English happenyng, equivalent to happen + -ing. As term used in performance art popularized by Allan Kaprow.
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