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advent

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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advent (plural advents)

  1. 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.

Verb

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advent (third-person singular simple present advents, present participle adventing, simple past and past participle advented)

  1. 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.

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Translations

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Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adventus.

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Noun

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advent m (plural advents)

  1. Advent

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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advent m inan

  1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

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Declension of advent (hard masculine inanimate)
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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  • “advent”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “advent”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]

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advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)

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

Inflection

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

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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advent m (uncountable)

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

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Descendants

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

Middle High German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin adventus.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /adˈvent/, /adˈfent/

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    advent m

    1. Advent (season before Christmas)

    Declension

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    Declension of advent (masculine, class 1 strong)
    singular plural
    indef. def. noun def. noun
    nominative ein dër advent die advente
    genitive eines dës adventes dër advente
    dative eime dëm advente dën adventen
    accusative einen dën advent die advente

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    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin adventus.

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

    1. Advent (period before Christmas)

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin adventus.

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

    1. Advent (period before Christmas)

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    Old Frisian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin adventus.

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    advent m

    1. advent

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

    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French advent or Latin adventus.

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    advent n (plural adventuri)

    1. Advent

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    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative advent adventul adventuri adventurile
    genitive-dative advent adventului adventuri adventurilor
    vocative adventule adventurilor

    Serbo-Croatian

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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

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

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    àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)

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

    Declension

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    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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    References

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    • “advent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

    Swedish

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    Etymology

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

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    advent n

    1. Advent

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    Declension of advent
    nominative genitive
    singular indefinite advent advents
    definite adventet adventets
    plural indefinite — —
    definite — —
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