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event definition

event (ē vent′, i-)

noun

  1. a happening or occurrence, esp. when important
  2. a particular contest or item in a program the pole vault, high jump, and other events
  3. any organized activity, celebration, etc. for members of the general public or a particular group the social event of the year
  4. Archaic a result; outcome

Etymology: OFr < L eventus, event, pp. of evenire, to happen < e-, out + venire, come

event Idioms

in any event

no matter what happens; anyhow
also at all events

in the event

Chiefly Brit. as it turns out or turned out

in the event of

if there should happen to be; in case of

in the event that

if it should happen that

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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