Meaning

10 senses
  1. An occurrence; something that happens.

    In the event of strong wind…

    Ereignis, Geschehnis, Vorgang

    собы́тиеsobýtije, происше́ствиеproisšéstvije, слу́чайslúčaj

    поді́яpodíja, за́хідzáxid

    something that happens at a given place and time

  2. A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

    I went to an event in San Francisco last week.

    Where will the event be held?

    Veranstaltung

    поді́яpodíja

  3. One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.

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

    In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway.

  5. (dated, figuratively, uncommon)A remarkable person.

  6. A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.

    собы́тиеsobýtije

  7. A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.

    Ereignis

    собы́тиеsobýtije

  8. 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.

    собы́тиеsobýtije

  9. An episode of severe health conditions.

  10. (obsolete)An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

Examples

904 sentences
  1. Nobody could remember the sequence of events.

    Ніхто не міг пригадати послідовність подій.

    ruНикто не мог вспомнить последовательность событий.

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  2. Tom is preparing for an important event.

    Том готується до важливої події.

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  3. This is an important event.

    Це важлива подія.

    ruЭто важное событие.

    deDies ist ein wichtiges Ereignis.

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  4. The event is on Monday.

    Захід відбудеться в понеділок.

    ruМероприятие состоится в понедельник.

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  5. We postponed the event.

    Ми відклали вечірку.

    ruМы отложили это событие.

    deWir verschoben die Veranstaltung.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
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Русский
By meaning 1
occurrence:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
occurrence:
prearranged social activity:

Origin

From Middle French event, from Latin ēventus (“an event, occurrence”), from ēveniō (“to ha

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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