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Webster 1913 Edition

Advent

Adˊvent

,
Noun.
[L.
adventus
, fr.
advenire
,
adventum
: cf. F.
avent
. See
Advene
.]
1.
(Eccl.)
The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
Advent Sunday
(Eccl.)
,
the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).
Shipley.
2.
The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
3.
Coming; any important arrival; approach.
Death’s dreadful
advent
.
Young.
Expecting still his
advent
home.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Advent

AD'VENT

,
Noun.
[L. adventus, from advenio, of ad and venio, to come. See Find.]
A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths before Christmas, beginning of St. Andrew's Day, or on the sabbath next before or after it. It is intended as a season of devotion, with reference to the coming of Christ in the flesh, and his second coming to judge the world.

Definition 2024

Advent

Advent

See also: advent

English

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.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin adventus.

Proper noun

Advent m

  1. Advent

German

Etymology

From Middle High German advente, from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔatˈvɛnt/

Noun

Advent m ‎(genitive Advents or Adventes, plural Advente)

  1. (Christianity) Advent

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Luxembourgish

Noun

Advent f ‎(uncountable)

  1. Advent

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • Àdvenat

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Àdvent m ‎(Cyrillic spelling А̀двент)

  1. (Christianity) Advent (the first or the expected second coming of Christ)

Declension

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References

  • “Advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal

advent

advent

See also: Advent

English

Noun

advent ‎(plural advents)

  1. Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.
    • 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 0146000129, 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.
    • 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.
  2. (religion, Christianity, always capitalized) See Advent.

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Czech

Noun

advent m

  1. Advent (season before Christmas)

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]

Noun

advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)

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

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑdʋɛnt/

Noun

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

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Noun

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

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

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Old Frisian

Noun

advent m

  1. advent

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • àdvenat

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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References

  • “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Noun

advent n

  1. Advent

Declension

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Etymology

See advent

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