advent

Other forms of advent

plural

advents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about advent

What does advent mean?

advent means "arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in advent?

advent has 2 syllables: ad-vent. The stress falls on "ad". In IPA it is /ˈædˌvɛnt/.

What is another word for advent?

Close synonyms include coming, Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Parousia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is advent a common word?

advent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with advent?

7 words rhyme with advent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.