event Definition

event
noun

1. Something that occurs or happens; an incident, especially a significant one.

Thesaurus: occurrence, experience, happening, incident, circumstance, situation, occasion, development, episode, case.
2. An item in a programme of sports, etc.

Idiom: at all events (in any event)

In any case; whatever happens.

Idiom: in either event

No matter which (of two things or possibilities, etc) happens.

Idiom: in the event

In the end; as it happened, happens or may happen.

Idiom: in the event of something (in the event that something)

If it occurs.
Example: in the event of a power cut
Example: in the event that power fails

Idiom: in that event

If that occurs.

Etymology: 16c: from Latin eventus result or event.