events
UK/ɪˈvɛnts//ɪˈvɛnts/
events is the plural of event.
events is the third-person singular simple present indicative of event.
Meaning of event
Noun
event (plural events)
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- In the event of strong wind…
- Synonyms:
- circumstance
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
- I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
- 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...
- 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.
Words formed from events
Phrases with events
- Bond events
- life events
- main events
- road events
- tail events
- canon events
- field events
- media events
- never events
- track events
- anoxic events
- at all events
31 more phrasesFewer phrases
- credit events
- doujin events
- Miyake events
- social events
- adverse events
- blessed events
- certain events
- special events
- turn of events
- whiting events
- chain of events
- combined events
- doomsday events
- sentinel events
- turns of events
- chains of events
- course of events
- energetic events
- liquidity events
- black swan events
- black-swan events
- courses of events
- extinction events
- impossible events
- quick time events
- signalling events
- speciation events
- oxygenation events
- mass extinction events
- extinction level events
- transient luminous events
Questions about events
- What is events the plural of?
- Events is the plural of event.
- How do you pronounce events?
- Events is pronounced /ɪˈvɛnts/ (UK).
Words near events in the dictionary
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