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See also: Advent
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
advent (plural advents)
- 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[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Terms related to advent (noun)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
coming, arrival
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Christianity — see Advent
Catalan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ədˈvent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ədˈben/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /adˈvent/
- Rhymes: -ent
Noun[edit]
advent m (plural advents)
Further reading[edit]
- “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.
Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
advent m inan
- Advent (season before Christmas)
Declension[edit]
Declension
Related terms[edit]
Related terms
Further reading[edit]
- advent in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- advent in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)
- Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of advent
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | advent | adventen | adventer | adventerne |
genitive | advents | adventens | adventers | adventernes |
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch advent, from Latin adventus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
advent m (uncountable)
- (Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian[edit]
Noun[edit]
advent m
Inflection[edit]
Declension of advent (masculine a-stem)
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French advent or Latin adventus.
Noun[edit]
advent n (plural adventuri)
Declension[edit]
Declension of advent
singular | plural | |||
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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[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)
- (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)
Declension[edit]
Declension of advent
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Swedish advent, from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
advent n
Declension[edit]
Declension of advent | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | advent | adventet | — | — |
Genitive | advents | adventets | — | — |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Finnish: adventti
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