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advent

/ˈæd.vɛnt/

advent noun: arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.

Noun

advent (plural advents)

  1. Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
    • Death's dreadful advent1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], and sold by M[ary]...
    • 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.1853, Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, in The Piazza Tales, New York: Dix, Edwards & Co, published 1856

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.
    • 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?1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.
    • 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.1873, Francis Bret Harte, An episode of Fiddletown, and other sketches

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Advent

Advent

  1. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
  2. The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas: the period of the advent (approaching) of Christmas.
  3. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church, itself named after the Christian concept.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Advent

Advent

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

advent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

advent in Hindi

coming, arrival
आगमन āgman

advent in Tamil

வருகை, கிறிஸ்துவின் மறுவருகை, திருவருகைக் காலம், அவதாரம், யுகம்

advent in Urdu

advent; apostleship
بعثت bi'sat
advent
ظہور zuhūr

advent in Bengali

আগমন, আবির্ভাব
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advent in Malayalam
ആഗമനകാലം āgamanakālaṁ
advent in Kannada
ಬರವು, ಬರುವಿಕೆ, ಆಗಮನ, ಘಟನೆಯಾಗುವುದು
advent in Odia
ଆଗମନ āgamana

Examples of advent in a sentence

  • The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.
  • The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
  • The advent of insulin in the mid-20th century changed the lives of millions of people with diabetes.

All 40 example sentences with advent

Synonyms of advent

Forms of advent

Noun
pluraladvents
Verb
third-person singular presentadvents
present participleadventing
past participleadvented
pastadvented

Plural of advent: advents

Origin of advent

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

By proprialization from advent.

From Saint Adwen (Saint Adwenna).

Words formed from advent

Phrases with advent

Questions about advent

What does advent mean?
Advent means arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
What is advent in Hindi?
Advent in Hindi is आगमन (āgman). See Advent meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is advent?
Advent can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce advent?
Advent is pronounced /ˈæd.vɛnt/.
What is the plural of advent?
The plural of advent is advents.

Words near advent in the dictionary

  1. advenements
  2. advenes
  3. advenience
  4. advenient
  5. advening
  6. advent
  7. Advent Bay
  8. Advent calendar
  9. Advent calendars
  10. Advent candle
  11. Advent candles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: advent (page history and authors); Advent (page history and authors); advent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بعثت (Urdu) (page history and authors); advent (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ആഗമനകാലം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); advent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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