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English

Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
- 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
  Category:English terms with quotations#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...
  Category:English terms with quotations#ADVENT
- 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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#ADVENT
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Verb

advent (third-person singular simple present advents, present participle adventing, simple past and past participle advented)Category:English lemmas#ADVENT Category:English verbs#ADVENT Category:English entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

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.
  Category:English terms with quotations#ADVENT
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- 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.

Synonyms

(coming): arrival, approach, oncome, onset

Derived terms

Terms related to advent (noun)

Related terms

Translations

coming, arrival

Category:Entries with translation boxes#ADVENT

Armenian: գալուստ (hy) (galust)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#ADVENT
Bulgarian: поява (bg) (pojava)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#ADVENT, идване (bg) (idvane)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#ADVENT
Chinese:
Mandarin: 到來 / 到来 (zh) (dàolái)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ADVENT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ADVENT, 出現 / 出现 (zh) (chūxiàn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ADVENT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ADVENT, 來臨 / 来临 (zh) (láilín)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#ADVENT Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#ADVENT
Danish: komme (da) nCategory:Terms with Danish translations#ADVENT, ankomst (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#ADVENT
Finnish: saapuminen (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#ADVENT
French: arrivée (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#ADVENT
German: Ankunft (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#ADVENT
Greek: έλευση (el) f (élefsi)Category:Terms with Greek translations#ADVENT, άφιξη (el) f (áfixi)Category:Terms with Greek translations#ADVENT
Hebrew: ביאה (he) fCategory:Terms with Hebrew translations#ADVENT, ביאת המשיחCategory:Terms with Hebrew translations#ADVENT
Hindi: आगमन (hi) (āgman)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#ADVENT
Hungarian: beköszönteCategory:Terms with Hungarian translations#ADVENT (only used in the possessive), eljövetel (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#ADVENT, megérkezés (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#ADVENT
Italian: avvento (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#ADVENT
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دەرپەڕین (derperrîn)Category:Terms with Central Kurdish translations#ADVENT
Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: advent (no) mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#ADVENT

Norwegian Nynorsk: advent fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#ADVENT
Odia: ଆଗମନ (āgamana)Category:Terms with Odia translations#ADVENT
Polish: nadejście (pl) nCategory:Terms with Polish translations#ADVENT
Portuguese: chegada (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#ADVENT, vinda (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#ADVENT, advento (pt) mCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#ADVENT
Russian: появле́ние (ru) (pojavlénije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ADVENT, приход (ru) m (prixod)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ADVENT, прибытие (ru) n (pribytije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ADVENT, наступление (ru) n (nastuplenije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ADVENT, применение (ru) n (primenenije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ADVENT, развитие (ru) n (razvitije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ADVENT, разработка (ru) f (razrabotka)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ADVENT, пришествие (ru) n (prišestvije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ADVENT, изобретение (ru) n (izobretenije)Category:Terms with Russian translations#ADVENT
Spanish: advenimiento (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#ADVENT, venida (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#ADVENT
Swedish: ankomst (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#ADVENT
Welsh: dyfodiad mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#ADVENT

Christianity — see Advent

Catalan

Alternative forms

Advent

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Category:Catalan terms borrowed from Latin#ADVENT Category:Catalan terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central) [ədˈben]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT

IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ədˈvent]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT

IPA^(key): (Valencia) [adˈvent]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#ADVENT
Rhymes: -ent Category:Rhymes:Catalan/ent#ADVENT Category:Rhymes:Catalan/ent/2 syllables#ADVENT

Noun

advent m (plural advents)Category:Catalan lemmas#ADVENT Category:Catalan nouns#ADVENT Category:Catalan countable nouns#ADVENT Category:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Catalan masculine nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

Advent

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Category:Czech terms borrowed from Latin#ADVENT Category:Czech terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus. First attested in the 14th century.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈadvɛnt]Category:Czech terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT
Hyphenation: ad‧vent

Noun

advent m inanCategory:Czech lemmas#ADVENT Category:Czech nouns#ADVENT Category:Czech entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Czech masculine nouns#ADVENT Category:Czech inanimate nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

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

Category:Czech masculine inanimate nouns#ADVENT Category:Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns#ADVENT

Related terms

References

↑ Rejzek, Jiří (2015), “advent”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 47

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Category:Danish terms borrowed from Latin#ADVENT Category:Danish terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT

Noun

advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)Category:Danish lemmas#ADVENT Category:Danish nouns#ADVENT Category:Danish entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Danish common-gender nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)

Inflection

Declension of *advent*
common gender	singular		plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	advent	adventen	adventer	adventerne
genitive	advents	adventens	adventers	adventernes

Category:da:Christmas#ADVENT

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

advent

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

From Middle Dutch Category:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#ADVENT Category:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#ADVENT advent, borrowed from Latin Category:Dutch terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑtˈfɛnt/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT
Hyphenation: ad‧vent
Rhymes: -ɛnt Category:Rhymes:Dutch/ɛnt#ADVENT Category:Rhymes:Dutch/ɛnt/2 syllables#ADVENT

Noun

advent m (uncountable, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#ADVENT Category:Dutch nouns#ADVENT Category:Dutch uncountable nouns#ADVENT Category:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Dutch masculine nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

(Christianity Category:nl:Christianity#ADVENT) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Middle High German

Alternative forms

advente

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin adventus.

Category:Middle High German terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷem-#ADVENT Category:Middle High German terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂éd#ADVENT Category:Middle High German terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin#ADVENT%7CADVENT Category:Middle High German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ADVENT Category:Middle High German learned borrowings from Ecclesiastical Latin#ADVENT%7CADVENT Category:Middle High German terms derived from Ecclesiastical Latin#ADVENT Category:Middle High German terms derived from Proto-Italic#ADVENT Category:Middle High German terms borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin#ADVENT%7CADVENT Category:Middle High German entries with etymology texts#ADVENT

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /adˈvent/, /adˈfent/Category:Middle High German terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT

Noun

advent mCategory:Middle High German lemmas#ADVENT Category:Middle High German nouns#ADVENT Category:Middle High German entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Middle High German masculine nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

Declension of advent (strong masculine without umlaut)

	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

Category:Middle High German strong masculine nouns without umlaut#ADVENT

Descendants

Alemannic German: Advänt
German: Advent
- → Hunsrik: Advent
Luxembourgish: Advent

References

Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “advent”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition

Category:gmh:Christmas#ADVENT

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

advent

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Category:Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from Latin#ADVENT Category:Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑdʋɛnt/Category:Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT

Noun

advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)Category:Norwegian Bokmål lemmas#ADVENT Category:Norwegian Bokmål nouns#ADVENT Category:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

adventskalender

References

“advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Category:nb:Christianity#ADVENT Category:nb:Christmas#ADVENT

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

advent

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Category:Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Latin#ADVENT Category:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus.

Noun

advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#ADVENT Category:Norwegian Nynorsk nouns#ADVENT Category:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Norwegian Nynorsk feminine nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

adventskalender

References

“advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Category:nn:Christianity#ADVENT Category:nn:Christmas#ADVENT

Old Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti

Proto-Italic *gʷənjō

Latin veniō

Latin adveniō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin adventusbor.

Old Czech advent

Category:Old Czech terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ADVENT Category:Old Czech terms derived from Proto-Italic#ADVENT Category:Old Czech terms derived from Latin#ADVENT Category:Old Czech terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷem-#ADVENT Category:Old Czech terms borrowed from Latin#ADVENT Category:Old Czech terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂éd#ADVENT Category:Pages with etymology trees#ADVENT Category:Old Czech entries with etymology trees#ADVENT

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈadʋɛnt/Category:Old Czech terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT

IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈadvɛnt/Category:Old Czech terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT

Noun

advent m inanCategory:Old Czech lemmas#ADVENT Category:Old Czech nouns#ADVENT Category:Old Czech entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Old Czech masculine nouns#ADVENT Category:Old Czech inanimate nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

Advent

Declension

Declension of advent (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	advent	adventy	adventi, adventové
genitive	adventa, adventu	adventú	adventóv
dative	adventu	adventoma	adventóm
accusative	advent	adventy	adventy
vocative	advente	adventy	adventi, adventové
locative	adventě, adventu	adventú	adventiech
instrumental	adventem	adventoma	adventy

This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.

Category:Old Czech masculine inanimate nouns#ADVENT Category:Old Czech hard masculine o-stem nouns#ADVENT

Descendants

Czech: advent

Old Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Category:Old Frisian terms borrowed from Latin#ADVENT Category:Old Frisian terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus.

Noun

advent mCategory:Old Frisian lemmas#ADVENT Category:Old Frisian nouns#ADVENT Category:Old Frisian entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Old Frisian masculine nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

advent

Inflection

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

Category:Old Frisian a-stem nouns#ADVENT

Category:ofs:Christmas#ADVENT

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Category:Romanian terms borrowed from French#ADVENT Category:Romanian terms derived from French#ADVENT advent or Latin Category:Romanian terms borrowed from Latin#ADVENT Category:Romanian terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus.

Noun

advent n (plural adventuri)Category:Romanian lemmas#ADVENT Category:Romanian nouns#ADVENT Category:Romanian countable nouns#ADVENT Category:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Romanian neuter nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

Advent

Declension

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

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

àdvenat

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Category:Serbo-Croatian terms borrowed from Latin#ADVENT Category:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ǎdʋent/Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT
Hyphenation: ad‧vent

Noun

àdvent m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#ADVENT Category:Serbo-Croatian nouns#ADVENT Category:Serbo-Croatian masculine inanimate nouns#ADVENT Category:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns#ADVENT Category:Serbo-Croatian inanimate nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

(Christianity Category:sh:Christianity#ADVENT) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)

Declension

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 terms

Àdvent

References

“advent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Swedish

Etymology

Category:Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ADVENT Category:Swedish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷem-#ADVENT

From Old Swedish Category:Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish#ADVENT Category:Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish#ADVENT advent, borrowed from Latin Category:Swedish terms derived from Latin#ADVENT adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /adˈvɛnt/Category:Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation#ADVENT

Noun

advent nCategory:Swedish lemmas#ADVENT Category:Swedish nouns#ADVENT Category:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#ADVENT Category:Swedish neuter nouns#ADVENT Category:Pages with entries#ADVENT Category:Pages with 13 entries#ADVENT

Advent

Declension

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

Category:Swedish nouns

Related terms

Descendants

→ Finnish: adventti

Category:Swedish uncountable nouns#ADVENT Category:sv:Christianity#ADVENT Category:sv:Christmas#ADVENT

[1] Rejzek, Jiří (2015), “advent”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 47

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Catalan

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Czech

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Danish

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Dutch

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Noun

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Middle High German

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Noun

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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Old Czech

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Noun

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Old Frisian

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Noun

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Romanian

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

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Noun

Declension

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Swedish