# event

Pronunciation: say "i-VENT" /ɪˈvɛnt/

## Noun

1. A planned social gathering or activity, such as a party, ceremony, or function.
   - Simple: A planned activity where people come together, like a party or meeting.
   - _The wedding was the largest event the venue had ever hosted._
   - _Corporate events often require months of careful planning._
2. Something that happens or takes place; an occurrence.
   - Simple: Something that happens, big or small.
   - _The earthquake was the most significant event of the decade._
   - _Several unexpected events disrupted the planned schedule._
3. One of several individual contests that together make up a larger sporting competition.
   - Simple: One of the separate contests that together make up a larger competition.
   - _Each athlete competes in only one event on the opening day._
   - _The decathlon combines ten separate events into a single score._
4. An end result or outcome, now found chiefly in fixed phrases.
   - Simple: The way something turns out in the end, or the result.
   - _In any event, the committee will meet on Friday regardless of the weather._
   - _She prepared for failure, but in the event her speech was a triumph._
5. An episode of a serious medical condition, such as a heart attack or a stroke.
   - Simple: A time when someone has a serious health problem, such as a heart attack.
   - _The patient was hospitalized following a serious cardiovascular event._
   - _Researchers recorded every acute cardiac event during the trial._
6. Something that happens, such as a click, a keypress or a page finishing loading, that software detects and responds to, often by running a handler.
   - Simple: Something that happens, like a click or a page finishing loading, that a program notices and reacts to.
   - _The browser fires an event whenever the user scrolls the page._
   - _Developers attach handlers to events like clicks and key presses._
7. A set of some of the possible outcomes of an experiment; a subset of the sample space.
   - Simple: A group of possible results chosen from all the results that could happen.
   - _The event of drawing a red card has a probability of one half._
   - _Two events are independent when one does not affect the other._

## Noun

8. A remarkable or extraordinary person. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A person who is amazing and stands out from everyone else.
9. An affair in hand; a piece of business or an enterprise. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Something you are busy with, like a piece of work or business.

## Verb

10. To occur or come to pass; to take place. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To happen or take place.
11. To be given off or breathed out into the air; to evaporate. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To be breathed out into the air, or to slowly turn into vapor.
12. To expose something to the air; to ventilate. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To open something up so that fresh air can reach it.

## Other meanings

- (noun) A point in spacetime, fixed by three spatial coordinates and one time coordinate.

## Origin

**Meanings 1–10** — Latin veniō ("come") joined with ē ("out of") to form ēveniō ("to happen, come out"), which gave ēventus ("an event, occurrence") and then Middle French event, the source of the English word; venture, advent, invent, and convene are relatives.
**Meanings 11–12** — From French éventer.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/event (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).