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advent

See also: Advent

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/
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NounEdit

advent (plural advents)

  1. 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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Terms related to advent (noun)

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TranslationsEdit

Christianity — see Advent

CatalanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

advent m (plural advents)

  1. Advent

Further readingEdit

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈadvɛnt]
  • Hyphenation: ad‧vent

NounEdit

advent m inan

  1. Advent (season before Christmas)

DeclensionEdit

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

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Further readingEdit

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

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed 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

DutchEdit

 
Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɑtˈfɛnt/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧vent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

NounEdit

advent m (uncountable)

  1. (Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Afrikaans: Advent
  • → Indonesian: adven
  • → Javanese: adven
  • → Papiamentu: atvènt

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

NounEdit

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

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

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ReferencesEdit

Old FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

NounEdit

advent m

  1. advent

InflectionEdit

Declension of advent (masculine a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative advent adventar, adventa
accusative advent adventar, adventa
genitive adventes adventa
dative advente adventum, adventem

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French advent or Latin adventus.

NounEdit

advent n (plural adventuri)

  1. Advent

DeclensionEdit

Declension of advent
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-CroatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed 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

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ReferencesEdit

  • “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

advent n

  1. Advent

DeclensionEdit

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

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DescendantsEdit

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