event

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Something that happens, especially something important.

   Their wedding was the biggest event of the year.

2. 2
   noun

   A planned social or public activity.

   I went to a music event in the city last week.

3. 3
   noun

   A particular situation or set of circumstances.

   In the event of a fire, leave the building immediately.

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Simplified etymology

Event was borrowed unchanged from French, which took it from Latin evenire, “to come out, happen, or result,” formed from e-, “out,” and venire, “to come.” It first meant an outcome or occurrence and developed the sense “planned or scheduled occasion” only in the 19th century.

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.

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