advent

See also: Advent

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/

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Noun

advent (plural advents)

1. 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

   • 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

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Terms related to advent (noun)

• advene
• Advent
• Adventist
• Advent Sunday
• adventual
• Advent wreath

Related terms

• advene
• adventure

Translations

coming, arrival

Armenian: գալուստ (hy) (galust) Bulgarian: поява (bg) (pojava), идване (bg) (idvane) Chinese: Mandarin: 到來 / 到来 (zh) (dàolái), 出現 / 出现 (zh) (chūxiàn), 來臨 / 来临 (zh) (láilín) Danish: komme (da) n, ankomst (da) c Finnish: saapuminen (fi) French: arrivée (fr) f German: Ankunft (de) f Greek: έλευση (el) f (élefsi), άφιξη (el) f (áfixi) Hebrew: ביאה (he) f, ביאת המשיח Hindi: आगमन (hi) (āgman) Hungarian: beköszönte (only used in the possessive), eljövetel (hu), megérkezés (hu) Italian: avvento (it) m Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دەرپەڕین (derperrîn) Norwegian: Norwegian bokmål: advent (no) m Norwegian nynorsk: advent f Odia: ଆଗମନ (āgamana) Polish: nadejście (pl) n Portuguese: chegada (pt) f, vinda (pt) f, advento (pt) m Russian: появле́ние (ru) (pojavlénije), приход (ru) m (prixod), прибытие (ru) n (pribytije), наступление (ru) n (nastuplenije), применение (ru) n (primenenije), развитие (ru) n (razvitije), разработка (ru) f (razrabotka), пришествие (ru) n (prišestvije), изобретение (ru) n (izobretenije) Spanish: advenimiento (es) m, venida (es) f Swedish: ankomst (sv) c Welsh: dyfodiad m

Christianity — see Advent

See also

• beginning, commencement, start

Catalan

Alternative forms

• Advent

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -ent

Noun

advent m (plural advents)

1. Advent

Further reading

• “advent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “advent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “advent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “advent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.