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Definition of Event
1. Noun. Something that happens at a given place and time.
Specialized synonyms: Act, Deed, Human Action, Human Activity, Group Action, Might-have-been, Nonevent, Happening, Natural Event, Occurrence, Occurrent, Social Event, Miracle, Migration, Make-up, Makeup, Zap
Specialized synonyms: Fall
2. Noun. A special set of circumstances. "It may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled"
3. Noun. A phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory.
Generic synonyms: Physical Phenomenon
4. Noun. A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon. "He acted very wise after the event"
Generic synonyms: Phenomenon
Specialized synonyms: Materialisation, Materialization, Offspring, Aftereffect, Aftermath, Backwash, Wake, Bandwagon Effect, Brisance, Butterfly Effect, By-product, Byproduct, Change, Coattails Effect, Coriolis Effect, Dent, Domino Effect, Harvest, Impact, Wallop, Influence, Knock-on Effect, Branch, Offset, Offshoot, Outgrowth, Product, Placebo Effect, Position Effect, Repercussion, Reverberation, Response, Fallout, Side Effect, Spillover
Derivative terms: Consequent, Effect, Effectuate, Eventuate, Result, Result
Definition of Event
1. n. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
2. v. t. To break forth.
Definition of Event
1. Noun. An occurrence; something that happens. ¹
2. Noun. An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases). ¹
3. Noun. (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate ¹
4. Noun. (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. ¹
5. Noun. (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Event
1. something that occurs [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Event
Literary usage of Event
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"MEANWHILE, in an event of even greater importance than the retreat of the army
without a battle, in the abandonment and burning of Moscow, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"... are attested, with some variations, by contemporary and respectable evidence.80 This
public event is described by Ambrose,81 bishop of Milan, ..."
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