advent
/ˈæd.vɛnt/ · noun
Meaning
- Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
- To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
- The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
- The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas: the period of the advent (approaching) of Christmas.
- An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church, itself named after the Christian concept.
- A civil parish near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England.
Etymology / origin
Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).
- adventus(Latin)→
- *gʷem-(ine-pro)→
- advent (English)
- Relations: root, bor
Related words
Descendant words
- Adbentista(Cebuano) (der)
- Asvens(Cornish) (bor)
- advento(Esperanto) (bor)
- आगमन(Hindi) (cog)
- advento(Ido) (bor)
- آمدن(Persian) (cog)
- Adventi(Swahili) (bor)
- Adfent(Welsh) (bor)
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