advent
See also: Advent
Contents
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowing from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
advent (plural advents)
- 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.
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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.
- Young
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Terms related to advent (noun)
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
coming, arrival
Christianity — see Advent
CzechEdit
NounEdit
advent m
- Advent (season before Christmas)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- advent in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- advent in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)
- 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 |
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)
- Advent (period before Christmas)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old FrisianEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)
- (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of advent
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal