social event

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   an event characteristic of persons forming groups

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Questions about social event

What does social event mean?

social event means "an event characteristic of persons forming groups".

Is social event a common word?

social event is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.