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English

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Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

event (plural events )

  1. An occurrence; something that happens.
    Synonym: circumstance (formal)
    In the event of strong wind...
    • 1856 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, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
      the events of his early years
    • 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 67:
      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.
  2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
    I went to an event in San Francisco last week.
    Where will the event be held?
  3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
  4. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
    In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.
  5. (figurative , uncommon , dated ) A remarkable person.
    Synonym: sensation
    • 1985, Miss Marple: The Moving Finger, spoken by Mr. Pye (Richard Pearson):
      Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.
  6. (physics ) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
  7. (computing ) 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. (probability theory ) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
    If X {\displaystyle X} {\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 of events could be: X = 1 {\displaystyle X=1} {\displaystyle X=1}, X = 2 {\displaystyle X=2} {\displaystyle X=2}, X ≥ 5 , X ≠ 4 , {\displaystyle X\geq 5,X\not =4,} {\displaystyle X\geq 5,X\not =4,} and X ∈ { 1 , 3 , 5 } {\displaystyle X\in \{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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Descendants
  • → Ukrainian: іве́нт (ivént, "a festival; a themed event in a game")
Translations
occurrence
prearranged social activity
one of several contests that combine to make up a sports competition
in phrases: an end result, an outcome — see ultimately,‎ 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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Further reading

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete ) To occur, take place.
    • 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,[1]
      [...] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England [...]

Etymology 2

From French éventer .

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete , intransitive ) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
    • 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,[2]
      ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold
      The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.
    • 1615, William Barclay, Callirhoe; commonly called The Well of Spa or The Nymph of Aberdene‎[3] , Aberdeen, published 1799, page 12:
      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.
  2. (obsolete , transitive ) To expose to the air, ventilate.
    • 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 Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198,[4]
      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.
    • 1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe),[5]
      [...] 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 [...]

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English 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").

Pronunciation

Noun

event

  1. An event , a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).
    Det var et stort event i Stockholmsmessen idag.
    There was a big event in the Stockholm fair today.

Declension

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See also

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English event , from Middle French event , from Latin ēventus , from ēveniō .

Pronunciation

Noun

event m inan

  1. event (prearranged social activity)
    Hypernym: wydarzenie

Declension

Declension of event
singular plural
nominative event eventy
genitive eventu eventów
dative eventowi eventom
accusative event eventy
instrumental eventem eventami
locative evencie eventach
vocative evencie eventy

Further reading

  • "event", in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[6] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • "event", in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[7] (in Polish)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English 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").

Pronunciation

Noun

event n

  1. An event , a prearranged social activity (function, etc.).
    Det var ett stort event i Stockholmsmässan idag.
    There was a big event in the Stockholm fair today.

Declension

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