Usually means: Occurrence at a specific time.
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We found 62 dictionaries that define the word event:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. event: Merriam-Webster
  2. event: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. event: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. event: Collins English Dictionary
  5. event: Vocabulary.com
  6. Event, event, eVent: Wordnik
  7. event: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. event: Wiktionary
  9. event: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. event: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Event (UML), Event (computing), Event (particle physics), Event (philosophy), Event (probability theory), Event (relativity), Event (synchronization primitive), Event (yacht), Event, The Event (TV series), The Event: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Event: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. event: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. event: Rhymezone
  15. event: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. event: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. event: FreeDictionary.org
  18. event: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. event: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. event: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. event: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  22. event: Infoplease Dictionary
  23. event: Dictionary.com
  24. event: Online Etymology Dictionary
  25. event: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. event: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  5. event: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. event: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. event: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Technopedia (No longer online)
  6. event: Encyclopedia
  7. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. event: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Event: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. event: Medical dictionary
  5. Event: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. EVENT: Acronym Finder
  2. event: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. event: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Event: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Event: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. event, event: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Statistics (No longer online)
  6. Event: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
  7. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Event, event: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See eventing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An occurrence; something that happens.
noun:  A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
noun:  One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
noun:  An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
noun:  (figurative, uncommon, dated) A remarkable person.
noun:  (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
noun:  (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
noun:  (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
noun:  (obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
noun:  (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
verb:  (obsolete) To occur, take place.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To expose to the air, ventilate.

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