events
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
event/ɪˈvent/
▶noun
- 1 a thing that takes place.
■ a public or social occasion.
- 2 each of several contests making up a sports competition.
- 3 Physics a single occurrence of a process, e.g. the ionization of one atom.
– phrases
in any event (or at all events) whatever happens or may have happened.
in the event
in any event (or at all events) whatever happens or may have happened.
in the event
- 1 as it turned out.
- 2 (in the event of/that) if (the specified thing) happens.
– derivatives
eventless adjective,
eventlessness noun.
eventless adjective,
eventlessness noun.
– origin C16: from L. eventus, from evenire ‘result, happen’.
'events' also found in these Oxford entries:
accumulator
- affair
- akasha
- amphitheatre
- annal
- annals
- anticlimax
- arena
- arm candy
- athlete
- athletics
- background
- bib
- bowl
- calendar
- card
- cast
- cat
- catastrophism
- chain
- chain reaction
- chamber
- chance
- chapter
- China syndrome
- chronicle
- chronological
- chronology
- circuit
- clairvoyance
- clash
- coincidence
- conjunction
- conjuncture
- contingency
- control
- counter
- coup de théâtre
- course
- crystal-gazing
- cycle
- decathlon
- destiny
- determinism
- dialectical materialism
- diarize
- diary
- discus
- dispose
- disposition
