advent

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/

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advent (plural advents)

1. arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears
   • (Can we date this quote by 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.

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

• advene
• adventure

Latin venio

• IPA^(key): [ˈadvɛnt]

advent m

1. Advent (season before Christmas)

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

From Latin adventus.

• IPA^(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]

advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)

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

From Middle Dutch advent, from Latin adventus.

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

advent m (uncountable)

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

• adventskaars
• adventskalender
• adventstijd

• Afrikaans: Advent

From Latin adventus.

• IPA^(key): /ɑdʋɛnt/

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

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

• adventskalender

• “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin adventus.

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

1. Advent (period before Christmas)

• adventskalender

• “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

advent m

1. advent

• àdvenat

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

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

àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)

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

• Àdvent

• “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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

• IPA^(key): /adˈvɛnt/

advent n

1. Advent

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