advent

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/
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Noun

advent (plural advents)

  1. Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears.
    • 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. ”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: R Dodsley , →OCLC:
      Death's dreadful advent
    • 1853, Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 3:
      At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
    • 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:
      The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side...
    • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51-52:
      Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania.

Verb

advent (third-person singular simple present advents, present participle adventing, simple past and past participle advented)

  1. To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
    • 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.
      But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?
    • 1873, Francis Bret Harte, An episode of Fiddletown, and other sketches:
      The new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.
    • 1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India
      Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.
    • 2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives.
      In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another.

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Translations

Christianity — see Advent

See also

Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

Noun

advent m (plural advents)

  1. Advent

Further reading

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ad‧vent

Noun

advent m inan

  1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

Declension of advent (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative advent adventy
genitive adventu adventů
dative adventu adventům
accusative advent adventy
vocative advente adventy
locative adventu, adventě adventech
instrumental adventem adventy

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Further reading

  • advent in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • advent in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

Noun

advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)

  1. Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)

Inflection

Declension of advent
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative advent adventen adventer adventerne
genitive advents adventens adventers adventernes

Dutch

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Wikipedia nl

Etymology

From Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑtˈfɛnt/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧vent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

advent m (uncountable)

  1. (Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: Advent
  • → Indonesian: adven
  • → Javanese: adven
  • → Papiamentu: atvènt

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

Noun

advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

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References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Noun

advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

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References

Old Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Noun

advent m

  1. advent

Inflection

Declension of advent (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative advent adventar, adventa
genitive adventes adventa
dative advente adventum, adventem
accusative advent adventar, adventa

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French advent or Latin adventus.

Noun

advent n (plural adventuri)

  1. Advent

Declension

Declension of advent
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) advent adventul (niște) adventuri adventurile
genitive/dative (unui) advent adventului (unor) adventuri adventurilor
vocative adventule adventurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǎdʋent/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧vent

Noun

àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)

  1. (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)

Declension

Declension of advent
singular plural
nominative àdvent adventi
genitive adventa àdvenātā
dative adventu adventima
accusative advent advente
vocative advente adventi
locative adventu adventima
instrumental adventom adventima

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References

  • “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish advent, borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst.

Pronunciation

Noun

advent n

  1. Advent

Declension

Declension of advent 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative advent adventet — —
Genitive advents adventets — —

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