advent
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Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).
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advent (plural advents)
- Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears.
- 1743, [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:
- 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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advent (third-person singular simple present advents, present participle adventing, simple past and past participle advented)
- To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
- 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.
- But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?
- 1873, Francis Bret Harte, An episode of Fiddletown, and other sketches:
- The new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.
- 1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India
- Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.
- 2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives.
- In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another.
- 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.
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- IPA(key): (Central) [ədˈben]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ədˈvent]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [adˈvent]
- Rhymes: -ent
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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, 2024
- “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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advent m inan
- Advent (season before Christmas)
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advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)
- Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)
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common gender |
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | advent | adventen | adventer | adventerne |
genitive | advents | adventens | adventers | adventernes |
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From Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.
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advent m (uncountable)
- (Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)
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advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
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- “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
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- “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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advent m
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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 |
Romanian edit
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Borrowed from French advent or Latin adventus.
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advent n (plural adventuri)
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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 |
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Borrowed from Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).
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àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)
- (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)
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- “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Swedish edit
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From Old Swedish advent, borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst.
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advent n
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Nominative | advent | adventet | — | — |
Genitive | advents | adventets | — | — |
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- → Finnish: adventti