EVENTUAL


Meaning of EVENTUAL in English

/ ɪˈventʃuəl; NAmE / adjective

[ only before noun ] happening at the end of a period of time or of a process :

the eventual winner of the tournament

It is impossible to predict what the eventual outcome will be.

The village school may face eventual closure.

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WORD ORIGIN

early 17th cent. (in the sense relating to an event or events ): from Latin eventus (from evenire result, happen, from e- (variant of ex- ) out of + venire come), on the pattern of actual .

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.