event — ozdic

Collocations

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2

(noun.) planned social occasion

ADJ

big, important, main, major, special | popular

prestigious

She was invited to a prestigious event at the museum last month.

inaugural | annual, regular

forthcoming

We need to buy tickets soon for the forthcoming event at the concert hall.

fund-raising, musical, social, sporting middle-distance, sprint

VERB + EVENT

enter (for), take part in

My sister decided to take part in the marathon event last spring.

win

EVENT + VERB

take place

The wedding took place on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in June.

PREP

in an/the ~

She competed in the swimming event and won a medal for her team.

VERB + EVENT

hold, organize, stage

The school organized a sports event last Saturday that attracted hundreds of families from the local community.

publicize

attend, support

My sister attended an exciting music festival last summer and really enjoyed it.

boycott

Many families decided to boycott the event after learning about its poor safety record.

EVENT + VERB

take place

3

(noun.) race/competition

ADJ

big, main

The wedding was such a big event that they had to rent a large hall for all the guests.

individual, team | men's, women's | field, track | jumping, running, throwing | distance, long-distance

Definitions

noun

1

An occurrence; something that happens.

In the event of strong wind…

the events of his early years

2

A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

I went to an event in San Francisco last week.

Where will the event be held?

3

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

4

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

hard beginnings have many times prosperous events […].

Of my ill boding Dream / Behold the dire Event.

5

A remarkable person.

Miss Burton, you are an event! Sleepy, old Lymston's going to love you! Bye-bye. Bye.

verb

1

To occur, take place.

1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33, […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie acted and evented in my Countrey of England […]

verb

1

To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.

c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178, ô that thou sawst my heart, or didst behold The place from whence that scalding sigh evented.

This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and vanisheth by the carriage.

2

To expose to the air, ventilate.

1559, attributed to William Baldwin, “How the Lorde Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty came to as straunge and sodayne a death” in The Mirror for Magistrates, Part III, edited by Joseph Haslewood, London: Lackington, Allen & Co., 1815, Volume 2, p. 198, For as I would my gorget have undon To event the heat that had mee nigh undone, An headles arrow strake mee through the throte, Where through my soule forsooke his fylthy cote.

1598, George Chapman, The Third Sestiad, Hero and Leander (completion of the poem begun by Christopher Marlowe), […] as Phœbus throws His beams abroad, though he in clouds be clos’d, Still glancing by them till he find oppos’d A loose and rorid vapour that is fit T’ event his searching beams, and useth it To form a tender twenty-colour’d eye, Cast in a circle round about the sky […]

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Synonyms

noun — a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phe

noun — a special set of circumstances

case

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

in any event

At any rate, anyhow.

Near-synonyms: nonetheless, nevertheless, come what may

blessed event

The birth of a baby.

Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Minister to the U.S., when asked if the blessed event was in prospect, hedged: "A royal child born on the soil of freedom-loving America would be both

it is easy to be wise after the event

After one has seen the consequences of a decision, it is easy to tell whether or not the decision was favorable, but it is also too late, since the consequences have already occurred.

Tuchel may wonder whether he should have kept the unbeatable Mendy on for penalties after his heroic performance but it is easy to be wise after the event and Kepa has proved his q

main event

The principal match, bout or contest.

Example Bank

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In the event of strong wind…

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the events of his early years

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Experience in Australia indicates that after a devastating weather event, up to one-fifth of people suffer the debilitating effects of extreme stress, emotional injury, and despair.

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1590, Robert Greene, Greene’s Never Too Late, in The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene, Volume 8, Huff Library, 1881, p. 33, […] I will first rehearse you an English Historie

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c. 1597, Ben Jonson, The Case is Altered, Act V, Scene 8, in C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson (editors), Ben Jonson, Volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927, p. 178, ô that thou sawst my heart, or dids

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This is the reason why this water hath no such force when it is carried, as it hath at the spring it self: because the vertue of it consisteth in a spiritual and occulte qualitie, which eventeth and v

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, event is marked as dated, figuratively, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.