Advent Meaning
/ˈæd.vɛnt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounArrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
verbTo arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
Sentence Examples
Carriages gradually disappeared with the advent of the motorcar.
Before the advent of video games children played cowboys and Indians.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the internet changed how people communicate across the globe.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the internet has completely changed the way we communicate.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Death's dreadful advent"
— 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC:
"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:
"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..."
— 2008, Philip Roth, Indignation:
"Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania."
— 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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ of the internet changed how people communicate across the globe.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ of the internet has completely changed the way we communicate.