advent

See also: Advent

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”)

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/

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NounEdit

advent (plural advents)

1. Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.
   • Young

     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.

SynonymsEdit

• (coming): arrival, approach, oncome, onset

Derived termsEdit

Terms related to advent (noun)

• Advent
• advene
• Adventist

• Advent Sunday
• adventual
• Advent wreath

Related termsEdit

• advene
• adventure

TranslationsEdit

coming, arrival

• Armenian: գալուստ (hy) (galust)
• Bulgarian: поява (bg) (pojava), идване (bg) (idvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 到來 (zh), 到来 (zh) (dàolái), 出現 (zh), 出现 (zh) (chūxiàn), 來臨 (zh), 来临 (zh) (láilín)

• Danish: komme (da) n, ankomst (da) c
• Finnish: saapuminen (fi)
• French: arrivée (fr) f
• German: Ankunft (de) f
• Greek: έλευση (el) f (élefsi), άφιξη (el) f (áfixi)
• Hebrew: ביאה‎‎ (he) f, ביאת המשיח‎‎

• Italian: avvento (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ده‌رپه‌ڕین‎‎ (derperrîn)

• Oriya: ଆଗମନ (agômônô)
• Polish: nadejście (pl)
• Portuguese: chegada (pt) f, vinda (pt) f, advento (pt) m
• Russian: появле́ние (ru) (pojavlénije)
• Spanish: advenimiento (es) m, venida (es) f
• Swedish: ankomst (sv) c
• Welsh: dyfodiad m

Christianity — see Advent

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CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Latin venio

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [ˈadvɛnt]

NounEdit

advent m

1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• adventní
• adventura
• avenue
• eventualita
• eventuální
• invence
• inventář
• inventura
• intervence
• intervencionismus
• intervenovat
• konvence
• konvencionalismus
• konvenovat
• konvent
• prevence
• provenience
• subvence
• subvencovat
• suvenýr

Further readingEdit

• advent in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• advent in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin adventus.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]

NounEdit

advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)

1. Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)

InflectionEdit

Declension of advent

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	advent	adventen	adventer	adventerne
genitive	advents	adventens	adventers	adventernes

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin adventus.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɑdʋɛnt/

NounEdit

advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived termsEdit

• adventskalender

ReferencesEdit

• “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin adventus.

NounEdit

advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived termsEdit

• adventskalender

ReferencesEdit

• “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old FrisianEdit

NounEdit

advent m

1. advent

DeclensionEdit

Declension of advent (masculine a-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	advent	adventar, adventa
accusative	advent	adventar, adventa
genitive	adventes	adventa
dative	advente	adventum, adventem

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• àdvenat

EtymologyEdit

From Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ǎdʋent/
• Hyphenation: ad‧vent

NounEdit

àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)

1. (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of advent

	singular	plural
nominative	àdvent	adventi
genitive	adventa	àdvenātā
dative	adventu	adventima
accusative	advent	advente
vocative	advente	adventi
locative	adventu	adventima
instrumental	adventom	adventima

Related termsEdit

• Àdvent

ReferencesEdit

• “advent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal, 2006–2018

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Swedish advent, from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Cognate with Swedish åtkomst

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /adˈvɛnt/

NounEdit

advent n

1. Advent

DeclensionEdit

Declension of advent
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	advent	adventet	—	—
Genitive	advents	adventets	—	—

Related termsEdit

• adventskalender
• adventsljusstake
• adventsrätt
• adventsstjärna
• adventssöndag
• adventstid
• adventsäpple