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event
[ ih-vent ]
noun
- something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.
Synonyms: circumstance, case, affair, happening
- the outcome, issue, or result of anything:
The venture had no successful event.
Synonyms: consequence
- 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.
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 contests
the 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 agency Compare act
- in any event or at all eventsregardless of circumstances; in any case
- in the event ofin case of; if (such a thing) happens
in the event of rain the race will be cancelled
- in the event thatif it should happen that
verb
- to take part or ride (a horse) in eventing
Other Words From
- e·vent·less adjective
- su·per·e·vent noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of event1
Word History and Origins
Origin of event1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
More idioms and phrases containing event
see blessed event ; in any case (event) ; in case (in the event) ; in the unlikely event .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
But how different would things have been 11 years later, when Scalise attended the Duke event?
This event, know as “Turn Around Tuesday,” enraged many of the demonstrators, especially the young SNCC activists.
In fact, Americans had to wait several hours until film of the event reached New York for it to be broadcast.
Over dinner, the Knight had mentioned that Scalise had spoken before the EURO event.
How the hell does somebody show up at a David Duke organized event in 2002 and claim ignorance?
This would in any event have depressed prices of cotton, even under ordinary conditions.
Please advise the surrender as soon as possible in order to give due and solemn publicity to the event.
An estate upon condition is one which depends upon the happening or not happening of some uncertain event.
An estate upon condition is one which depends upon the happening or not happening of some event.
An estate upon condition is one which depends upon the happening of some event.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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