definition of the word cause

< Middle English cause < Old French cause (“‘a cause, a thing’”) < Latin causa (“‘a cause, reason, in Mediaeval Latin also a thing’”); origin uncertain. See accuse, excuse.

• enPR: kôz, IPA: /kɔːz/, SAMPA: /kO:z/
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  Rhymes: -ɔːz

• caws
• cores (non-rhotic dialects)

cause (plural causes)

1. The source or reason of an event or action
2. The goal, aim, principle

   He is fighting for a just cause.

• reason (1)
• source (1)

• because

• causal
• causative
• causality
• cause celebre

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