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Event

noun

Something that happens at a given place and time.

A special set of circumstances. Synonym: case. "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.

A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon. Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot. "His decision had depressing consequences for business" , "He acted very wise after the event"

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"Event" Quotes from Famous Books

... Tense may express (1) simply past action or being, (2) a past habit or custom, (3) a future event, and (4) it ...

— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg

... in the way of pleasure, profit, or enterprise, than a German. The court circle is the most formal in Europe, and the upper classes of society are absolute slaves to conventionality. A presentation at court is an event of such signal importance that weeks of preparation are required for the impressive ordeal; and when the tailor, and shoemaker, and the jeweler have done their part, and the unhappy victim, all bedeviled with finery and befrogged with lace, is brought into the presence of royalty, it is a miracle ...

— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne

... not yet lost her admiration for Mary, and Mary, in return, behaves admirably. Another event is expected, and her ladyship is almost as anxious about that as she was about the wedding. "A matter, you know, of such importance in the county!" she whispered ...

— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope

... the first year of the magazine a dramatic event occurred that caused unusual excitement in Philadelphia, and led to important consequences. The great tragedian, George Frederick Cooke, whom Edmund Kean pronounced "the greatest of all actors, Garrick ...

— The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 • Albert Smyth

... President and the politicians was directed toward the reform of the civil service, there occurred an event for which none of them was prepared. Early in the summer of 1877 train hands on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad struck because of a reduction in wages, the fourth cut that they had suffered in seven years. The strike spread with the speed of a prairie fire ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

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