event

UK/ɪˈvɛnt//ɪˈvɛnt/

event noun: an occurrence; something that happens.

Noun

event (plural events)

An occurrence; something that happens.
- In the event of strong wind…
- the events of his early years1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...
Synonyms:

circumstance
A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
- I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
- Where will the event be held?
One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section...
- Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.1707, Semele, by Eccles and Congrieve; scene 8
(dated, figuratively, uncommon) A remarkable person.
- Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.1985, Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, spoken by Mr. Pye (Richard Pearson)
Synonyms:

sensation
A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
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.
A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- If X is a random variable representing the toss of a six-sided die, then its sample space could be denoted as {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Examples of events could be: X=1, X=2, X>5,X̸=4, and X isin 1,3,5.
(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
- Leave we him to his events.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
An episode of severe health conditions.

Verb (1)

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

(obsolete) To occur, take place.
- […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33

Verb (2)

event (third-person singular simple present events, present participle eventing, simple past and past participle evented)

(intransitive, obsolete) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
- ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold
  The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178
- This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.1615, William Barclay, Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene, Aberdeen, published 1799, page 12
(obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.
- For as I would my gorget have undon
  To event the heat that had mee nigh undone,
  An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,
  Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by...
- […] as Phœbus throws
  His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d,
  Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d
  A loose and rorid vapour that is fit
  T’ event his searching beams, and useth it
  To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye,
  Cast in a circle round about the sky […]1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe)

event meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

event in Hindi

occurrence: घटना ghaṭnā
prearranged social activity: प्रसंग prasaṅg
physics: point in spacetime: घटना ghaṭnā

event in Tamil

occurrence: நிகழ்ச்சி nikaḻcci, நிகழ்வு nikaḻvu
prearranged social activity: நிகழ்ச்சி nikaḻcci
probability theory: a set of some of the possible outcomes: நிகழ்ச்சி nikaḻcci

event in Marathi

occurrence: घटना ghaṭnā, प्रसंग prasaṅga
physics: point in spacetime: बिंदू bindū
computing: action which triggers an event handler: इव्हेंट ivheṇṭa

event in Urdu

occurrence: گَھٹْنا ghaṭnā, واقِعَہ vāqi'a, حادِثَہ hādisa, رُویَداد rūyadād, ماجْرا mājrā, سانِحَہ sāniha

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event in Bengali: ঘটনা ghoṭona
event in Malayalam: പരിപാടി paripāṭi, ചടങ്ങ് caṭaṅṅŭ
event in Kannada: ಆಗುಹ, ನೆಗಳ್ತೆ, ಎಸಕ, ಘಟನೆ
event in Punjabi: ਘਟਨਾ, ਇਵੈਂਟ, ਸਮਾਗਮ
event in Gujarati: પ્રોગ્રામ progrām
event in Odia: କାଣ୍ଡ kāṇḍa
event in Sanskrit: घटना ghaṭanā
event in Assamese: ঘটনা ghotona
event in Nepali: घटना
event in Pashto: رویداد roydā́d, واقعه wāqe'á, حادثه hādesá
event in Tagalog: pangyayari, balagha, yari
event in Arabic: وَاقِعَة wāqiʕa, حَادِثَة ḥādiṯa
event in Malay: peristiwa
event in Indonesian: kejadian
event in Thai: เหตุการณ์ hèet-gaan
event in Vietnamese: sự kiện, sự việc
event in Myanmar: စဉ်းဝါး cany:wa:, အခြင်း a.hkrang:, အဖြစ်အပျက် a.hpraca.pyak

Examples of event in a sentence

In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weather event, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 67:
dark doubts between the promise and event1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fourth. The Christian Triumph.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality...

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Synonyms of event

Forms of event

Noun
plural	events
Verb
third-person singular present	events
present participle	eventing
past participle	evented
past	evented

Plural of event: events

Origin of event

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.

From French éventer.

Words formed from event

Phrases with event

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Words that rhyme with event

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Questions about event

What does event mean?: Event means an occurrence; something that happens.
What is event in Hindi?: Event in Hindi is घटना (ghaṭnā), प्रसंग (prasaṅg). See Event meaning in Hindi.
How do you use event in a sentence?: In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
What part of speech is event?: Event can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce event?: Event is pronounced /ɪˈvɛnt/ (UK).
What is the plural of event?: The plural of event is events.

Words near event in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: event (page history and authors); ചടങ്ങ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); event (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); event (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); પ્રોગ્રામ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); କାଣ୍ଡ (Odia) (page history and authors); ঘটনা (Assamese) (page history and authors); event (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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