Английский Этимологический словарь - serendipity
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Serendipity
serendipity
- 1754, from the fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip," by Horace Walpole (1717-92), whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of." From Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), from Ar. Sarandib. Serendipity formed c.1950.
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~ n literary the natural ability to make interesting or valuable discoveries by accident ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Serendipity is the luck some people have in finding or creating interesting or valuable things by chance. (LITERARY) Some of the best effects in my garden have been the result of serendipity. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: from its possession by the heroes of the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip Date: 1754 the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also an instance of this ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. Derivatives serendipitous adj. serendipitously adv. Etymology: coined by Horace Walpole (1754) after The Three Princes of Serendip (Sri Lanka), a fairy-tale ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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особая способность делать случайные изобретения SERENDIPITY сущ. непрогнозируемое научно-техническое достижение ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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