Advent

By proprialization from advent.

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.

From Saint Adwen (Saint Adwenna).

Advent

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

• advent

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

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

Advent m

1. Advent

From Middle High German advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.

• IPA^(key): /ʔatˈvɛnt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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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.)

• Adventskalender, Adventkalender
• Adventskranz

• → Hunsrik: Advent

• Vorweihnachtszeit
• Wintersonnenwende
• Mittwinter
• Dreikönigsfest

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

Borrowed from German Advent, from Middle High German advent, a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin adventus, from adveniō + -tus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /atˈvɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Syllabification: Ad‧vent

Advent m (plural Advente)

1. (Christianity) Advent (season before Christmas)

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

• IPA^(key): [ɑtˈvænt]

Advent m (uncountable)

1. Advent

• Àdvenat

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

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

Àdvent m inan (Cyrillic spelling А̀двент)

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

• àdvent

• “Advent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025