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Etymology 1

FromMiddle Frenchevent, fromLatinēventus(“an event, occurrence”), fromēveniō(“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), fromē(“out of, from”), short form ofex +veniō(“come”); related toventure,advent,convent,invent,convene,evene, etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

event (pluralevents)

  1. Anoccurrence; something that happens.
    In theevent of strong wind…
    • 1856 February,[Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, inT[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor,The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London:Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published1871,→OCLC:
      theevents of his early years
    • 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir,Climate Change and the Health of Nations,→ISBN, page67:
      Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weatherevent, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.
  2. Aprearrangedsocialactivity (function, etc.)
    I went to anevent in San Francisco last week.
    Where will theevent be held?
  3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
  4. An endresult; anoutcome (now chiefly in phrases).
    In theevent, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
  5. (figurative, uncommon, dated) Aremarkableperson.
    Synonym:sensation
    • 1985,Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, spoken by Mr. Pye (Richard Pearson):
      Miss Burton, you are anevent! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.
  6. (physics) A point inspacetime having threespatialcoordinates and onetemporal coordinate.
  7. (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by anapplication or theoperating system (eventlistener). When an event occurs anevent handler is called which performs a specific task.
  8. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of thesample space.
    IfX{\displaystyle 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 ofevents could be:X=1{\displaystyle X=1},X=2{\displaystyle X=2},X≥5,X≠4,{\displaystyle X\geq 5,X\not =4,} andX∈{1,3,5}{\displaystyle X\in \{1,3,5\}}.
  9. (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
  10. (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
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occurrence
prearranged social activity
one of several contests that combine to make up a sports competition
in phrases: an end result, an outcome—seeultimately,‎in the end,‎eventually
physics: point in spacetime
computing: action which triggers an event handler
probability theory: a set of some of the possible outcomes
medicine: an episode of severe health conditions
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Verb

event (third-person singular simple presentevents,present participleeventing,simple past and past participleevented)

  1. (obsolete) Tooccur,take place.
    • 1590,Robert Greene,Greene’s Never Too Late, inThe Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33,[1]
      […] I will first rehearse you anEnglish Historie acted andevented in my Countrey ofEngland […]

Etymology 2

FromFrenchéventer.

Verb

event (third-person singular simple presentevents,present participleeventing,simple past and past participleevented)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To beemitted orbreathed out; toevaporate.
    • c.1597,Ben Jonson,The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, inC. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors),Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178,[2]
      ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold
      The place from whence that scalding sighevented.
    • 1615,William Barclay,Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene‎[3], Aberdeen, published1799, page12:
      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, whicheventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) Toexpose to the air,ventilate.
    • 1559, attributed toWilliam Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” inThe Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited byJoseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,[4]
      For as I would mygorget have undon
      Toevent the heat that had mee nigh undone,
      An headles arrow strake mee through the throte,
      Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.
    • 1598,George Chapman, The Third Sestiad,Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun byChristopher Marlowe),[5]
      […] asPhœbus 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 […]

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed fromEnglishevent, fromMiddle Frenchevent, fromLatinēventus(“an event, occurrence”), fromēveniō(“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), fromē(“out of, from”), short form ofex +veniō(“come”).

Pronunciation

Noun

event

  1. Anevent, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).
    Det var et stortevent i Stockholmsmessen idag.
    There was a bigevent in the Stockholm fair today.

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishevent, fromMiddle Frenchevent, fromLatinēventus, fromēveniō.

Pronunciation

Noun

event m inan

  1. event(prearranged social activity)
    Hypernym:wydarzenie

Declension

Declension ofevent
singularplural
nominativeeventeventy
genitiveeventueventów
dativeeventowieventom
accusativeeventeventy
instrumentaleventemeventami
locativeevencieeventach
vocativeevencieeventy

Further reading

  • event inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • event in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed fromEnglishevent, fromMiddle Frenchevent, fromLatinēventus(“an event, occurrence”), fromēveniō(“to happen, to fall out, to come out”), fromē(“out of, from”), short form ofex +veniō(“come”).

Pronunciation

Noun

event n

  1. Anevent, a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).
    Det var ett stortevent i Stockholmsmässan idag.
    There was a bigevent in the Stockholm fair today.

Declension

Declension ofevent
nominativegenitive
singularindefiniteeventevents
definiteeventeteventets
pluralindefiniteeventevents
definiteeventeneventens

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