advent
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/
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Noun
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.
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Synonyms
- (coming): arrival, approach, oncome, onset
Derived terms
- Advent
- advene
- Adventist
- Advent Sunday
- adventual
- Advent wreath
Related terms
- advene
- adventure
Translations
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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
Noun
advent m (plural advents)
- 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, 2023
- “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
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adventus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈadvɛnt]
- Hyphenation: ad‧vent
Noun
advent m inan
- Advent (season before Christmas)
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
- 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
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adventus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]
Noun
advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)
- Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)
Inflection
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | advent | adventen | adventer | adventerne |
genitive | advents | adventens | adventers | adventernes |
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑtˈfɛnt/
- Hyphenation: ad‧vent
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
advent m (uncountable)
- (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
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adventus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑdʋɛnt/
Noun
advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
Derived terms
- adventskalender
References
- “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adventus.
Noun
advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
Derived terms
- adventskalender
References
- “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adventus.
Noun
advent m
- advent
Inflection
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | advent | adventar, adventa |
accusative | advent | adventar, adventa |
genitive | adventes | adventa |
dative | advente | adventum, adventem |
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French advent or Latin adventus.
Noun
advent n (plural adventuri)
- Advent
Declension
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 |
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)
- (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)
Declension
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
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish advent, borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /adˈvɛnt/
Noun
advent n
- 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