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1. Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
   "a victim of circumstances"
   - fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, portion
    
2. A person's financial situation (good or bad)
   "he found himself in straitened circumstances"

1. A condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity
    
2. The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event
   - context, setting
    
3. Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
   - condition, consideration
    
4. Formal ceremony about important occasions
   "pomp and circumstance"

See also: circumstantial

Type of: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony, condition, environment, information, observance, possession, status

Encyclopedia: Circumstance