EVENT | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Event

Speech Type: Noun

Etymology:

mid 16th century (originally in the sense ‘outcome, result’): from Latin eventus, from evenire ‘result, happen’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + venire ‘come’

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: ɪˈvɛnt
Dialects: British English
Definition:

a thing that happens or takes place, especially one of importance

Short Definition:

thing that happens

Examples:
  • the momentous political events of the late 1980s

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