advent

See also: Advent

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
   • 1741, [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 1102703094:

     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.

Synonyms

• (coming): arrival, approach, oncome, onset

Derived terms

Terms related to advent (noun)

• Advent
• advene
• Adventist

• Advent Sunday
• adventual
• Advent wreath

Related terms

• advene
• adventure

Translations

coming, arrival

• Armenian: գալուստ (hy) (galust)
• Bulgarian: поява (bg) (pojava), идване (bg) (idvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 到來 (zh), 到来 (zh) (dàolái), 出現 (zh), 出现 (zh) (chūxiàn), 來臨 (zh), 来临 (zh) (láilín)

• Danish: komme (da) n, ankomst (da) c
• Finnish: saapuminen (fi)
• French: arrivée (fr) f
• German: Ankunft (de) f
• Greek: έλευση (el) f (élefsi), άφιξη (el) f (áfixi)
• Hebrew: ביאה‎ (he) f, ביאת המשיח‎
• Hungarian: beköszönte (only used in the possessive), eljövetel (hu), megérkezés (hu)

• Italian: avvento (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەرپەڕین‎ (derperrîn)

• Oriya: ଆଗମନ (agômônô)
• Polish: nadejście (pl)
• Portuguese: chegada (pt) f, vinda (pt) f, advento (pt) m
• Russian: появле́ние (ru) (pojavlénije), приход (ru) m (prixod), прибытие (ru) n (pribytije), наступление (ru) n (nastuplenije), применение (ru) n (primenenije), развитие (ru) n (razvitije), разработка (ru) f (razrabotka), пришествие (ru) n (prišestvije), изобретение (ru) n (izobretenije)
• Spanish: advenimiento (es) m, venida (es) f
• Swedish: ankomst (sv) c
• Welsh: dyfodiad m

Christianity — see Advent

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Catalan

Alternative forms

• Advent

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ədˈvent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ədˈben/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /adˈvent/
• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

advent m (plural advents)

1. Advent

Further reading

• “advent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “advent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
• “advent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “advent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Czech

Etymology

Latin adventus

Pronunciation

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

Noun

advent m inan

1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	advent	adventy
genitive	adventu	adventů
dative	adventu	adventům
accusative	advent	adventy
vocative	advente	adventy
locative	adventu, adventě	adventech
instrumental	adventem	adventy

Related terms

Related terms

• adventní
• adventura
• avenue
• eventualita
• eventuální
• invence
• inventář
• inventura
• intervence
• intervencionismus
• intervenovat
• konvence
• konvencionalismus
• konvenovat
• konvent
• prevence
• provenience
• subvence
• subvencovat
• suvenýr

Further reading

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

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]

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

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch advent, 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

• adventskaars
• adventskalender
• adventstijd

Descendants

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑdʋɛnt/

Noun

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

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

• adventskalender

References

• “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Noun

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

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

• adventskalender

References

• “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old Frisian

Noun

advent m

1. advent

Inflection

Declension of advent (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	advent	adventar, adventa
accusative	advent	adventar, adventa
genitive	adventes	adventa
dative	advente	adventum, adventem

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Romanian

Etymology

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• àdvenat

Etymology

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

Related terms

• Àdvent

References

• “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adˈvɛnt/

Noun

advent n

1. Advent

Declension

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

Related terms

• adventskalender
• adventsljusstake
• adventsrätt
• adventsstjärna
• adventssöndag
• adventstid
• adventsäpple

Descendants

• → Finnish: adventti