HAPPY EVENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does happy event mean? 

• HAPPY EVENT (noun)
  The noun HAPPY EVENT has 1 sense:

1. the live birth of a child

  Familiarity information: HAPPY EVENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAPPY EVENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The live birth of a child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

blessed event; happy event

Hypernyms ("happy event" is a kind of...):

live birth (the birth of a living fetus (regardless of the length of gestation))

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

And she talked and laughed about it with so little caution as to catch the comprehension of Mr. Rushworth and his mother, and expose her sister to the whispered gallantries of her lover, while Mrs. Rushworth spoke with proper smiles and dignity of its being a most happy event to her whenever it took place.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

What relates to yourself, is as follows: 'Having thus offered you the sincere congratulations of Mrs. Collins and myself on this happy event, let me now add a short hint on the subject of another; of which we have been advertised by the same authority. Your daughter Elizabeth, it is presumed, will not long bear the name of Bennet, after her elder sister has resigned it, and the chosen partner of her fate may be reasonably looked up to as one of the most illustrious personages in this land.'

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)