Advent

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) Indonesian: adven (id) Macedonian: пришествие n (prišestvie) 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), 降臨節, 降临节 (gong3 lam4 zit3), 待降節, 待降节 (doi6 gong3 zit3) Mandarin: 將臨期／将临期 (jiānglínqī), 降臨節／降临节 (zh) (Jiànglínjié), 待降節／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 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 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

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ədˈvent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ədˈben/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /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

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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 uncommon, 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): [ɑtˈvænt]

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