English Explanatory Dictionary

event

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An occurrence; something that happens.
  2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
  3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
  4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
  5. A remarkable person.
  6. A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  7. A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
  8. A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
  9. An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
  10. An episode of severe health conditions.
verb
  1. To occur, take place.
verb
  1. To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
  2. To expose to the air, ventilate.

Pronunciation

/ɪˈvɛnt/ /i-/ /ə-/ en-us-event.ogg /əˈvent/ /ɪˈʋɛnʈ/ [ɪ.ʋɛ(ː)ɳʈ] /ˈi.ʋᵻnʈ/ [iː.ʋeɳʈ]

Word forms

event events eventing evented

Etymology

From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), from ē (“out of, from”), short form of ex + veniō (“come”); related to venture, advent, convent, invent, convene, evene, etc.

Synonyms

sensation

Related words

event horizon in the event wise after the event

Derived words

adverse event after-event afterevent anoxic event at any event Azolla event bioevent black swan event Bond event canon event certain event chain of events Christ event coevent combined event cosmic event horizon cosmological event horizon doujin event energetic event event-based event-based programming event CG event data recorder event derivative event-driven event-driven architecture event-driven programming eventer eventful event-goer eventgoer event handler eventhood evential eventify eventism eventive eventization eventize eventless eventlike event loop event marketing eventness eventology event recorder event-related potential eventscape event sink event time event tree eventual extinction event extinction level event field event impossible event in any event interevent in the event of in the event that
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