events

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of event.

   A series of unexpected events forced the committee to reschedule the conference.

   Historians traced the events leading up to the revolution in careful detail.

   Note

   One spelling, several kinds of plural. Events can be happenings in a story, the functions on a social calendar, the separate contests that together make up a competition, or, in physics, points in spacetime fixed by three spatial coordinates and one of time. The form is a regular -s plural, and it looks exactly like the present-tense verb, so context decides which one you are reading.

2. 2
   verbobsolete

   Third-person singular simple present of event. Obsolete.

   Note

   A present-tense form whose verb has a long, mostly vanished past. Older English used event to mean to occur, to evaporate or be breathed out, and to air a room, and all three uses are now obsolete. A sentence like it events, meaning 'it happens', will read as a mistake today. The -s marks a he, she or it subject, and the spelling is identical to the plural noun.

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