event

[ ih-vent ]

/ ɪˈvɛnt /

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noun

something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.

the outcome, issue, or result of anything: The venture had no successful event.

something that occurs in a certain place during a particular interval of time.

Physics. in relativity, an occurrence that is sharply localized at a single point in space and instant of time.Compare world point.

Sports. any of the contests in a program made up of one sport or of a number of sports: The broad jump event followed the pole vault.

OTHER WORDS FOR event

1 happening, affair, case, circumstance.

2 consequence.

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Idioms about event

in any event, regardless of what happens; in any case.Also at all events.

in the event of, if there should be: In the event of rain, the party will be held indoors.

in the event that, if it should happen that; in case: In the event that I can't come back by seven, you can eat without me.

Origin of event

First recorded in 1560–70; from Latin ēventus “occurrence, outcome,” equivalent to ēven(īre) “to come out, fall out, occur” + -tus suffix of verbal action

synonym study for event

1. Event, episode, incident, occurrence are terms for a happening. An event is usually an important happening: historical events. An episode is one of a series of happenings in a person's life or in a narrative: an episode in one's life. An incident is an event of usually minor importance: an amusing incident in a play. An occurrence is something that happens, often by surprise: His arrival was an unexpected occurrence.

OTHER WORDS FROM event

e·vent·less, adjectivesu·per·e·vent, noun

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How to use event in a sentence

According to CNN, the event will be hosted by Anderson Cooper and feature a socially distanced live audience.
Election live updates: Trump returns to Wisconsin; Biden to face live audience at town hall|Colby Itkowitz, Felicia Sonmez, John Wagner|September 17, 2020|Washington Post
The event offered a unique opportunity to study how different types of wetlands survive a big storm.
Soggy coastal soils? Here’s why ecologists love them|Alison Pearce Stevens|September 17, 2020|Science News For Students
Similar to the iridium layer at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary that marks the detonation of the 6-mile-wide asteroid, it is a signal that is both global and unambiguous in the events it represents.
Dawn of the Heliocene - Issue 90: Something Green|Summer Praetorius|September 16, 2020|Nautilus
Previously, Arctaris spoke at events produced by HelpedHope.
Opportunity Zones haven’t fully reached their potential, but don’t write them off yet|jakemeth|September 16, 2020|Fortune

We’ll have to wait a little longer than usual for the new iPhone this year, but Apple is still throwing a Fall event to show off some new products in the iPad and Watch families.
Apple just announced a new iPad, iPad Air, and Apple Watch Series 6|Stan Horazek|September 15, 2020|Popular-Science
Within minutes, it seems, of the disclosures of these tragic events, large numbers of people chose a side and stuck to it.
In 2015, Let’s Try for More Compassion|Gene Robinson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And in so many of these events, the pattern of “blame the victim” was quickly in evidence.
In 2015, Let’s Try for More Compassion|Gene Robinson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Knight lived down the street from Scalise, and had met him a handful of times at Republican Party events.
GOP Boss Gets Help From ‘White Hate’ Pal|Tim Mak|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“The events this year with Ukraine led to his ties with Cato being severed,” a source at the think tank told The Daily Beast.
Vaclav Klaus, Libertarian Hero, Has His Wings Clipped by Cato Institute|James Kirchick|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I recognize my inability to truly understand these events in the same context or view these events through exactly the same prism.
Dr. Howard Fuller's Injustice Education|Campbell Brown|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
The unhappy applicant was naturally obliged to temporarily retire from the game, at all events for that night.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
The events which succeeded this fortunate capture are too well known to require more than a very brief recapitulation.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Recent events have done much to introduce Korea and its people to the world at large.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
A verbal narrative has of course in itself nothing similar to the scenes and events of which it tells.
Children's Ways|James Sully

British Dictionary definitions for event

event

/ (ɪˈvɛnt) /

noun

anything that takes place or happens, esp something important; happening; incident

the actual or final outcome; result (esp in the phrases in the event, after the event)

any one contest in a programme of sporting or other conteststhe high jump is his event

philosophy

an occurrence regarded as a bare instant of space-time as contrasted with an object which fills space and has endurance
an occurrence regarded in isolation from, or contrasted with, human agencyCompare act (def. 8)

in any event or at all events regardless of circumstances; in any case

in the event of in case of; if (such a thing) happensin the event of rain the race will be cancelled

in the event that if it should happen that

verb

to take part or ride (a horse) in eventing

Word Origin for event

C16: from Latin ēventus a happening, from ēvenīre to come forth, happen, from venīre to come

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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see blessed event; in any case (event); in case (in the event); in the unlikely event.

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