Carriages gradually disappeared with the advent of the motorcar.
Source: tatoeba (264514)
Advent
//ˈæd.vɛnt//
Synonyms for "advent" (97 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (29)
appulseascension dayash wednesdayattainmentcandlemascandlemas daycarnivalchristmaschristmas seasoncomingcoming nearcoming towardcorpus christidawneastereaster mondayeaster saturdayeaster sundayeastertideember days
Show 4 more words
Verb(1 words)
Proper Noun(3 words)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (48)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
4 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
13 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
108 translations across 57 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Ἔλευσις name (coming of the Christ)
Armenian
1 entries- գալուստ verb (coming, arrival)
Basque
1 entries- Abendualdia name (season before Christmas)
Bulgarian
3 entries- прише́ствие name (coming of the Christ)
- идване verb (coming, arrival)
- поява verb (coming, arrival)
Catalan
2 entries- Advent name (coming of the Christ)
- Advent name (season before Christmas)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- دەرپەڕین verb (coming, arrival)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 將臨期 /将临期 name (season before Christmas)
- 待降節 /待降节 name (season before Christmas)
- 降臨節 /降临节 name (season before Christmas)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 將臨期 /将临期 name (season before Christmas)
- 待降節 /待降节 name (season before Christmas)
- 降臨節 /降临节 name (season before Christmas)
- 來臨 /来临 verb (coming, arrival)
Cimbrian
1 entries- Avént name (season before Christmas)
Cornish
1 entries- Asvens name (season before Christmas)
Czech
1 entries- advent name (season before Christmas)
Danish
3 entries- advent name (season before Christmas)
- ankomst verb (coming, arrival)
- komme verb (coming, arrival)
Dutch
1 entries- advent name (season before Christmas)
Esperanto
2 entries- Advento name (season before Christmas)
- Kristalveno name (coming of the Christ)
Faroese
3 entries- advent name (season before Christmas)
- atvent name (season before Christmas)
- jólaføsta name (season before Christmas)
Finnish
3 entries- Kristuksen tuleminen name (coming of the Christ)
- adventti name (season before Christmas)
- saapuminen verb (coming, arrival)
French
2 entries- Avent name (season before Christmas)
- arrivée verb (coming, arrival)
Galician
1 entries- advento name (season before Christmas)
Georgian
1 entries- ადვენტი name (season before Christmas)
German
2 entries- Advent name (season before Christmas)
- Ankunft verb (coming, arrival)
Greek
3 entries- Δευτέρα Έλευση name (season before Christmas)
- άφιξη verb (coming, arrival)
- έλευση verb (coming, arrival)
Hebrew
2 entries- ביאה verb (coming, arrival)
- ביאת המשיח verb (coming, arrival)
Hindi
1 entries- आगमन verb (coming, arrival)
Hungarian
3 entries- advent name (season before Christmas)
- eljövetel verb (coming, arrival)
- megérkezés verb (coming, arrival)
Icelandic
2 entries- aðventa name (season before Christmas)
- jólafasta name (season before Christmas)
Ido
1 entries- advento name (coming of the Christ)
Indonesian
2 entries- adven name (coming of the Christ)
- adven name (season before Christmas)
Irish
1 entries- Aidbhint name (season before Christmas)
Italian
2 entries- Avvento name (season before Christmas)
- avvento verb (coming, arrival)
Japanese
1 entries- 降臨節 name (season before Christmas)
Korean
1 entries- 대림절 name (season before Christmas)
Latin
1 entries- adventus name (season before Christmas)
Latvian
1 entries- Advente name (season before Christmas)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Adventas name (season before Christmas)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- adwent name (season before Christmas)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Advent name (season before Christmas)
Macedonian
1 entries- пришествие name (coming of the Christ)
Maltese
1 entries- Avvent name (season before Christmas)
Māori
1 entries- Haerenga mai name (season before Christmas)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- advent name (season before Christmas)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- advent name (season before Christmas)
Norwegian bokmål
1 entries- advent verb (coming, arrival)
Norwegian nynorsk
1 entries- advent verb (coming, arrival)
Odia
1 entries- ଆଗମନ verb (coming, arrival)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Adwent name (coming of the Christ)
- Adwent name (season before Christmas)
Pohnpeian
1 entries- Adwendo name (coming of the Christ)
Polish
3 entries- Adwent name (coming of the Christ)
- adwent name (season before Christmas)
- nadejście verb (coming, arrival)
Portuguese
4 entries- Advento name (season before Christmas)
- advento verb (coming, arrival)
- chegada verb (coming, arrival)
- vinda verb (coming, arrival)
Romanian
1 entries- Advent name (season before Christmas)
Russian
4 entries- Адве́нт name (season before Christmas)
- прише́ствие name (coming of the Christ)
- изобретение verb (coming, arrival)
- наступление verb (coming, arrival)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- došašće name (season before Christmas)
Spanish
4 entries- Adviento name (coming of the Christ)
- Adviento name (season before Christmas)
- advenimiento verb (coming, arrival)
- venida verb (coming, arrival)
Swahili
2 entries- Adventi name (season before Christmas)
- Majilio name (season before Christmas)
Swedish
2 entries- advent name (season before Christmas)
- ankomst verb (coming, arrival)
Tagalog
2 entries- Adbiyento name (coming of the Christ)
- Adbiyento name (season before Christmas)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Mùa Vọng name (season before Christmas)
Welsh
3 entries- Adfent name (season before Christmas)
- Dyfodiad name (season before Christmas)
- dyfodiad verb (coming, arrival)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
The advent of indoor tanning salons now allows Canadians to sport a sun-kissed look all year round.
Source: tatoeba (409206)
Before the advent of video games children played cowboys and Indians.
Source: tatoeba (593741)
"ASCII quotes" are a substitute character for the “real” quotes that vary from language to language, and the advent of Unicode have rendered ASCII quotes obsolete.
Source: tatoeba (678094)
Showing 4 of 18 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.