different between experience vs advent

English

Etymology

From Middle English experience, from Old French, from Latin experientia (“a trial, proof, experiment, experimental knowledge, experience”), from experiens, present participle of experiri (“to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo”), from ex (“out”) + peritus (“experienced, expert”), past participle of *periri (“to go through”); see expert and peril.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.i.?ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?sp??.???ns/
• Hyphenation: ex?pe?ri?ence

Noun

experience (countable and uncountable, plural experiences)

1. The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
   • March 20, 1684-5, John Sharp, Sermon preached at Whitehall

     Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.
2. (countable) An activity one has performed.
3. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
   • 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie

     they knew soone by experience how slenderly guarded against danger, the majestie of Rulers is

   • Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.

4. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
5. (obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "experience": broad, wide, good, bad, great, amazing, horrible, terrible, pleasant, unpleasant, educational, financial, military, commercial, academic, political, industrial, sexual, romantic, religious, mystical, spiritual, psychedelic, scientific, human, magical, intense, deep, humbling, unforgettable, unique, exciting, exhilarating.

Antonyms

• inexperience

Hyponyms

• (activity one has performed): user experience

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

experience (third-person singular simple present experiences, present participle experiencing, simple past and past participle experienced)

1. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.

Synonyms

• undergo

Derived terms

• experienceable
• re-experience. reexperience

Translations

Further reading

• experience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• experience at OneLook Dictionary Search
• experience in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "experience" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 126.
• experience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• experience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd.v?nt/, /?æd.v?nt/

Noun

advent (plural advents)

1. arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears

   • Death's dreadful advent

   • 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.

   • 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:

     Berlin's six-decade career began before the advent of radio and ended during the height of Beatlemania.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• advene
• adventure

Translations

Czech

Etymology

Latin adventus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?adv?nt]
• Hyphenation: ad?vent

Noun

advent m inan

1. Advent (season before Christmas)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• advent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• advent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adv?nt/, [?að?v?n?d?]

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, from Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?f?nt/
• Hyphenation: ad?vent
• Rhymes: -?nt

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin adventus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??nt/

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

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

Noun

advent m

1. advent

Inflection

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• àdvenat

Etymology

From Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb adven?re (“come to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?ent/
• Hyphenation: ad?vent

Noun

àdvent m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

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

Declension

Related terms

• Àdvent

References

• “advent” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad?v?nt/

Noun

advent n

1. Advent

Declension

Related terms

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

Descendants

• ? Finnish: adventti