From en.wiktionary.org:
[Advent]
** English
*** Etymology
[en] Borrowed from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Arrival ; onset ; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approach ing.
2. * {{ RQ:Young Night-Thoughts | night=5
|passage=Death's dreadful ADVENT}}
1. * 1853 , 吴语: Herman Melville , "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in _Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories_ , New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as _Bartleby_ , [0146000129] , page 3:
2. *: 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.
3. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=2008 |author=w:Philip Roth |title=[Indignation (novel)] |section=
|passage= 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....}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2012 | author=Christoper Zara | title=Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds | section=part 1, chapter 2, [q=advent]
|passage=Berlin's six-decade career began before the ADVENT of radio and ended
during the height of Beatlemania.}}
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To arrive or begin , especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
2. * 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.
3. *: 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 ?
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1873 | author=Francis Bret Harte | title=An episode of Fiddletown, and other sketches
|passage=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.}}
1. * 1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India
2. *: Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in _Tarjuman-ul-Quran_ says that in the seventh century when Islam was ADVENTED males had uncontrolled rights.
3. * 2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives.
4. *: In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, ADVENTING , in an intimate reciprocity to one another.
**** Synonyms
- [coming] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|title=Terms related to _advent_ (noun) |Advent<id:from onset-referent
origins> |advene |Adventist |Advent Sunday |adventual |Advent wreath }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[coming, arrival]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] [only used in the possessive] , [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Kurdish:
- Norwegian:
- Odia: [or]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Welsh: [cy]
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[Christianity]
**** See also
- [en] , [en] , [en]
** Catalan
*** Alternative forms
- [ca]
*** Etymology
[ca].
*** Pronunciation
- [é]
- [ca]
- [ca]
*** Noun
[m]
1. Advent
*** Further reading
- [R:ca:IEC2]
- [R:ca:GDLC]
- [R:ca:DNV]
- [R:ca:DCVB]
** Czech
*** Etymology
[cs].
*** Pronunciation
- [cs-IPA]
- [cs]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. Advent [season before Christmas]
**** Declension
[m.locu:ě]
**** Related terms
[2] <!-- from La venio -->
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*** Further reading
- [R:cs:PSJC]
- [R:cs:SSJC]
** Danish
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [da].
*** Pronunciation
- [da]
*** Noun
[en]
1. Advent [the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas]
**** Inflection
[en]
[da]
** Dutch
[lang=nl]
*** Etymology
From [nl], borrowed from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [nl] Advent [period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve]
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
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- [nl]
**** Descendants
- [af]
- [id]
- [jv]
- [pap]
** Middle High German
*** Alternative forms
- [gmh]
*** Etymology
[gmh]
*** Pronunciation
[ad'vent]
*** Noun
[m]
1. Advent [season before Christmas]
**** Declension
[m]
**** Descendants
- [gsw]
- [de]
- [lb]
*** References
- [advent]
[gmh]
** Norwegian Bokmål
[lang=no]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nb].
*** Pronunciation
- [nb]
*** Noun
[nb-noun-m1]
1. Advent [period before Christmas]
**** Derived terms
- [nb]
*** References
References:
- [R:The Bokmål Dictionary]
[nb]
** Norwegian Nynorsk
[lang=nn]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nn].
*** Noun
[nn-noun-f1]
1. Advent [period before Christmas]
**** Derived terms
- [nn]
*** References
- [R:The Nynorsk Dictionary]
[nn]
** Old Frisian
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [ofs].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en]
**** Inflection
[advent]
[ofs]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro] or [ro].
*** Noun
[n]
1. Advent
**** Declension
[ro-noun-n-uri]
** Serbo-Croatian
*** Alternative forms
- [sh]
*** Etymology
[sh], perfect passive participle form of verb [la].
*** Pronunciation
- [sh]
- [sh]
*** Noun
[àdvent]
1. [sh] Advent [period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas]
**** Declension
{{sh-decl-noun |àdvent|adventi |adventa|àdvenātā |adventu|adventima
|advent|advente |advente|adventi |adventu|adventima |adventom|adventima }}
**** Related terms
- [sh]
*** References
- [eFti]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
[sv] From [sv], borrowed from [sv]. Compare [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
*** Noun
[n]
1. Advent
**** Declension
[2=adventet]
**** Related terms
{{col|sv |adventskalender |adventsljusstake |adventsrätt |adventsstjärna
|adventssöndag |adventstid |adventsäpple }}
**** Descendants
- [fi]
[sv] [sv]