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advent

See also: Advent

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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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[obert] 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

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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.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Terms related to advent (noun)
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Translations

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Christianity — see Advent

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Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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advent m (plural advents)

  1. Advent

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈadvɛnt]
  • Hyphenation: ad‧vent

Noun

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advent m inan

  1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

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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

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

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]

Noun

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advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)

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

Inflection

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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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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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advent m (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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

Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Noun

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

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

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Old Frisian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Noun

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advent m

  1. advent

Inflection

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French advent or Latin adventus.

Noun

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advent n (plural adventuri)

  1. Advent

Declension

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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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)

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

Declension

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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

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  • “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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advent n

  1. Advent

Declension

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

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