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event is a noun meaning "something that happens at a given place and time". It carries 4 recorded senses.
something that happens at a given place and time
a special set of circumstances
“in that event, the first possibility is excluded”
“it may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled”
a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
relativity
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
“the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise”
“his decision had depressing consequences for business”
“he acted very wise after the event”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for event come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.