event

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

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Definition

  1. noun something that happens at a given place and time
  2. noun a special set of circumstances
  3. noun a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory

Etymology

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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