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Yes. The word advent is a Scrabble US word. The word advent is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word advent is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

ADVENT,

5-letter words (3 found)

ANTED,DAVEN,VANED,

4-letter words (19 found)

ANTE,DANT,DATE,DEAN,DENT,DEVA,ETNA,NAVE,NEAT,TAED,TANE,TEAD,TEND,VADE,VANE,VANT,VENA,VEND,VENT,

3-letter words (29 found)

AND,ANE,ANT,ATE,AVE,DAE,DAN,DEN,DEV,EAN,EAT,END,ETA,NAE,NAT,NAV,NED,NET,TAD,TAE,TAN,TAV,TEA,TED,TEN,VAE,VAN,VAT,VET,

2-letter words (14 found)

AD,AE,AN,AT,DA,DE,EA,ED,EN,ET,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 67 words from advent according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of advent

advent

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæd.vɛnt/, /ˈæd.vənt/

Noun

advent (plural advents)

  1. Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears.
    • 1853, Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as Bartleby, →ISBN, page 3:
      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.

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.
    • 1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al.
      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?
    • 1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India
      Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.
    • 2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives.
      In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another.

Synonyms

  • (coming): arrival, approach, oncome, onset

Derived terms

Related terms

  • advene
  • adventure

Translations

See also

  • beginning, commencement, start

Catalan

Alternative forms

  • Advent

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

advent m (plural advents)

  1. Advent

Further reading

  • “advent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “advent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “advent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “advent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈadvɛnt]
  • Hyphenation: ad‧vent

Noun

advent m inan

  1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • advent in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • advent in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /advɛnt/, [ˈaðˌvɛnˀd̥]

Noun

advent c (singular definite adventen, plural indefinite adventer)

  1. Advent (the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas)

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch advent, borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑtˈfɛnt/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧vent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

advent m (uncountable)

  1. (Christianity) Advent (period from the fourth Sunday before Christmas until Christmas Eve)

Derived terms

  • adventskaars
  • adventskalender
  • adventstijd

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: Advent
  • → Indonesian: adven
  • → Javanese: adven
  • → Papiamentu: atvènt

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑdʋɛnt/

Noun

advent m (definite singular adventen, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

  • adventskalender

References

  • “advent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Noun

advent f (definite singular adventa, indefinite plural adventer, definite plural adventene)

  1. Advent (period before Christmas)

Derived terms

  • adventskalender

References

  • “advent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus.

Noun

advent m

  1. advent

Inflection

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French advent or Latin adventus.

Noun

advent n (plural adventuri)

  1. Advent

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • àdvenat

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǎdʋent/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧vent

Noun

àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling а̀двент)

  1. (Christianity) Advent (period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas)

Declension

Related terms

  • Àdvent

References

  • “advent” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish advent, borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”). Compare Swedish åtkomst.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adˈvɛnt/

Noun

advent n

  1. Advent

Declension

Related terms

  • adventskalender
  • adventsljusstake
  • adventsrätt
  • adventsstjärna
  • adventssöndag
  • adventstid
  • adventsäpple

Descendants

  • → Finnish: adventti

Source: wiktionary.org