Let's say a festival is a en "event" that is organised every year, so it's (a recurring event).
But that festival in 2017 happened on a precise range of dates is an event to (an event occurrence).
In English, by chance, are there two distinct single names that could help distinguishing a (recurring) event and an event (occurrence)?
(This question was triggered when thinking of names for tables in a database so I can't use twice the same word. My mother language is French, and I think that I would have the same issue in French.)
Best Answer
As far as I'm aware there isn't a single word that can be used to describe and define an event as being either a recurring event, a one-off event, or a particular instance of a recurring event.
To be explicit in describing a recurring event, it would be usual to add the period of repetition, e.g. the daily / nightly / weekly / monthly / yearly / annual / biannual... event / festival / fair / party....
To describe an event as one that does not repeat, you would say that it is one-off, unique, or in some cases pop-up (e.g. pop-up shop).
Describing a particular instance of a recurring event would often largely rely on context, or would use a possessive description such as this year's (e.g. This year's fair has been moved from the square to the park).