Advent

See also: advent

English

English Wikipedia has articles on:

Advent and Advent (disambiguation)

Wikipedia Wikipedia

Etymology 1

By proprialization from advent.

Proper noun

Advent

1. (Christianity) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
2. (Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas: the period of the advent (approaching) of Christmas.

   Synonyms: Christmas season, Christmastime, Christmastide, yuletide

   Hypernym: holiday season

3. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church, itself named after the Christian concept.

Derived terms

• Advent calendar
• Advent candle
• Advent crown
• Adventism
• Adventist
• Advent Sunday
• Advent wreath

Translations

coming of the Christ

Bulgarian: прише́ствие n (prišéstvie) Catalan: Advent (ca) m Esperanto: Kristalveno Finnish: Kristuksen tuleminen Greek: Ancient: Ἔλευσις f (Éleusis) Ido: advento (io) Indonesian: adven (id) Macedonian: пришествие n (prišestvie) Plautdietsch: Adwent m Pohnpeian: Adwendo Polish: Adwent m Russian: прише́ствие (ru) n (prišéstvije) Spanish: Adviento m Tagalog: Adbiyento

season before Christmas

Basque: Abendualdia Catalan: Advent (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 將臨期 / 将临期 (zoeng1 lam4 kei4), 降臨節 / 降临节 (gong3 lam4 zit3), 待降節 / 待降节 (doi6 gong3 zit3) Mandarin: 將臨期 / 将临期 (zh) (jiānglínqī), 降臨節 / 降临节 (zh) (Jiànglínjié), 待降節 / 待降节 (Dàijiàngjié) Cimbrian: Avént Cornish: Asvens m Czech: advent (cs) m Danish: advent (da) Dutch: advent (nl) m Esperanto: Advento Faroese: advent f, atvent f, jólaføsta f Finnish: adventti (fi) French: Avent (fr) m Galician: advento m Georgian: ადვენტი (advenṭi) German: Advent (de) m Greek: Δευτέρα Έλευση f (Deftéra Élefsi) Hungarian: advent (hu) Icelandic: aðventa (is) f, jólafasta f Indonesian: adven (id) Irish: Aidbhint f Italian: Avvento m Japanese: 降臨節 (ja) (こうりんせつ, kōrinsetsu) Korean: 대림절 (daerimjeol) Latin: adventus (la) m Latvian: Advente Lithuanian: Adventas (lt) Luxembourgish: Advent (lb) m Maltese: Avvent Maori: Haerenga mai Norwegian Bokmål: advent (no) m Norwegian Nynorsk: advent f Plautdietsch: Adwent m Polish: adwent (pl) m Portuguese: Advento (pt) m Romanian: Advent (ro) n Russian: Адве́нт (ru) m (Advént) Serbo-Croatian: došašće Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: adwent m Spanish: Adviento m Swahili: Majilio, Adventi Swedish: advent (sv) Tagalog: Adbiyento Vietnamese: Mùa Vọng Welsh: Adfent m, Dyfodiad m

Etymology 2

From Saint Adwen (Saint Adwenna).

Proper noun

Advent

1. A civil parish near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England.

Catalan

Alternative forms

• advent

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ədˈben]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ədˈvent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [adˈvent]
• Rhymes: -ent

Proper noun

Advent m

1. Advent

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Advent

Wikipedia ^de

Etymology

From Middle High German advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔatˈvɛnt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Advent m (strong, genitive Adventes or Advents, plural Advente)

1. (Christianity) Advent

   Advent, Advent, ein Lichtlein brennt. ― Advent, advent, a light is burning.

   Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei, dann vier; ― First one, then two, then three, then four;

   Dann steht das Christkind vor der Tür. ― Then the Christkind is at the door. (A nursery rhyme.)

Declension

Declension of Advent [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Advent	die	Advente
genitive	eines	des	Adventes, Advents	der	Advente
dative	einem	dem	Advent, Advente1	den	Adventen
accusative	einen	den	Advent	die	Advente

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Adventskalender, Adventkalender
• Adventskranz

Descendants

• → Hunsrik: Advent

See also

• Vorweihnachtszeit
• Wintersonnenwende
• Mittwinter
• Dreikönigsfest

Further reading

• “Advent” in Duden online
• “Advent” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache