Advent

See also: advent

English

Etymology

See advent.

Proper noun

Advent

1. (Christianity) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
2. (Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas.

Synonyms

• (season): Christmas season, Christmastide, yuletide; holiday season (secular)

Derived terms

• Advent calendar
• Advent Sunday
• Advent wreath

Related terms

• Adventist

Translations

coming of the Christ

• Bulgarian: прише́ствие n (prišéstvie)
• Catalan: Advent (ca) m
• Esperanto: Kristalveno
• Finnish: Kristuksen tuleminen
• Greek:

  Ancient: Ἔλευσις f (Éleusis)

• Ido: advento (io)
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• Indonesian: adven (id)
• Plautdietsch: Adwent m
• Pohnpeian: Adwendo
• Russian: прише́ствие (ru) n (prišéstvije)
• Spanish: Adviento m
• Tagalog: Adbiyento

season before Christmas

• Basque: Abendualdia
• Catalan: Advent (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 將臨期／将临期 (zoeng¹ lam⁴ kei⁴), 将临期 (zoeng¹ lam⁴ kei⁴), 降臨節／降临节 (gong³ lam⁴ zit³), 降临节 (gong³ lam⁴ zit³), 待降節／待降节, 待降节 (doi⁶ gong³ zit³)

  Mandarin: 將臨期／将临期 (jiānglínqī), 将临期 (jiānglínqī), 降臨節／降临节 (zh) (jiànglínjié), 降临节 (zh) (Jiànglínjié), 待降節／待降节, 待降节 (Dàijiàngjié)

• Cimbrian: Avént
• Czech: advent (cs) m
• Danish: advent (da)
• Dutch: advent (nl) m
• Esperanto: Advento
• Faroese: advent f, atvent f, jólaføsta f
• Finnish: adventti (fi)
• French: Avent (fr) m
• Galician: advento m
• German: Advent (de) m
• Greek: Δευτέρα Έλευση f (Deftéra Élefsi)
• Hungarian: advent (hu)
• Icelandic: aðventa (is) f, jólafasta f
• Indonesian: adven (id)
• Irish: Aidbhint f
• Italian: Avvento m
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• Japanese: 降臨節 (こうりんせつ, kōrinsetsu)
• Korean: 대림절 (daerimjeol)
• Latin: adventus (la) m
• Latvian: Advente
• Lithuanian: Adventas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Advent (lb) m
• Maltese: Avvent
• Maori: Haerenga mai
• Norwegian Bokmål: advent (no) m
• Norwegian Nynorsk: advent f
• Plautdietsch: Adwent m
• Polish: adwent (pl) m
• Portuguese: Advento (pt) m
• Romanian: Advent (ro) n
• Russian: Адве́нт (ru) m (Advént)
• Serbo-Croatian: došašće (sh)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: adwent m

• Spanish: Adviento m
• Swedish: advent (sv)
• Tagalog: Adbiyento
• Vietnamese: Mùa Vọng
• Welsh: Adfent m, Dyfodiad m

Further reading

• Advent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Catalan

Alternative forms

• advent

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ədˈben]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ədˈvent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [adˈvent]
• Rhymes: -ent

Proper noun

Advent m

1. Advent

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German advente, borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔatˈvɛnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Advent m (strong, genitive Adventes or Advents, plural Advente)

1. (Christianity) Advent

   Advent, Advent, ein Lichtlein brennt. ― Advent, advent, a light is burning.

   Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei, dann vier; ― First one, then two, then three, then four;

   Dann steht das Christkind vor der Tür. ― Then the Christkind is at the door. (A nursery rhyme.)

Declension

Declension of Advent [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Advent	die	Advente
genitive	eines	des	Adventes, Advents	der	Advente
dative	einem	dem	Advent, Advente1	den	Adventen
accusative	einen	den	Advent	die	Advente

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Adventskalender, Adventkalender
• Adventskranz

See also

• Vorweihnachtszeit
• Wintersonnenwende
• Mittwinter
• Dreikönigsfest

Further reading

• “Advent” in Duden online
• “Advent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /atˈvænt/, [ɑdˈvænt]

Noun

Advent m (uncountable)

1. Advent

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• Àdvenat

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 (the first or the expected second coming of Christ)

Declension

Declension of Advent

	singular
nominative	Advent
genitive	Adventa
dative	Adventu
accusative	Advent
vocative	Advente
locative	Adventu
instrumental	Adventom

Related terms

• àdvent

References

• “Advent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024