advent
See also: Advent
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”)
Pronunciation
Noun
advent (plural advents)
- arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears
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- 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.
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Translations
coming, arrival
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Christianity — see Advent
Czech
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
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- Advent (season before Christmas)
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Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)
- Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)
Inflection
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
Etymology
From Middle Dutch advent, from Latin adventus.
Pronunciation
Noun
advent m (uncountable)
- (Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)
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Descendants
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
Derived terms
References
- “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
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References
- “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Noun
advent m
Inflection
Declension of advent (masculine a-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | advent | adventar, adventa |
genitive | adventes | adventa |
dative | advente | adventum, adventem |
accusative | advent | adventar, adventa |
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).
Pronunciation
Noun
àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)
- (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)
Declension
Declension of advent
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References
- “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish
Etymology
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From Old Swedish advent, from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Cognate with Swedish åtkomst
Pronunciation
Noun
advent n
Declension
Declension of advent | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | advent | adventet | — | — |
Genitive | advents | adventets | — | — |
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