event

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a special set of circumstances

   in that event, the first possibility is excluded

2. 2
   noun

   An occurrence; something that happens.

   In the event of strong wind…

3. 3
   noun

   A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

   I went to an event in San Francisco last week.

4. 4
   noun

   An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

   hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

5. 5
   noun

   A remarkable person.

   Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.

6. 6
   noun

   A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

   If 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, X=2, X>5,X̸=4, and X isin 1,3,5.

7. 7
   noun

   An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

   Leave we him to his events.

8. 8
   verb

   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, […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

Etymology

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.