Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Opportunity

Opportunity , noun

[French opportunité, Latin opportunitas. See Opportune.]

1.
Fit or convenient time or situation; a time or place permitting or favorable for the execution of a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. — Bacon
2.
Convenience of situation; fitness. [Obsolete]
Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. — Milton
3.
Importunity; earnestness. [Obsolete] — Jer. Taylor