different between occur vs advent

English

Etymology

Originally "meet, meet in argument", borrowed from Middle French occurrer, from Latin occurr? (“run to meet, run against, befall, present itself”) from prefix ob- (“against”) + verb curr? (“run, hurry, move”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

occur (third-person singular simple present occurs, present participle occurring, simple past and past participle occurred)

1. (intransitive) To happen or take place.
2. (intransitive) To present or offer itself.

3. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.
   • 1995, Theodore Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

     Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, […]

4. (intransitive, sciences) To be present or found.

Synonyms

• (happen): belimp (obsolete), betide (obsolete), betime (obsolete), come to pass, happen, take place; See also Thesaurus:happen
• (present itself): appear, arise, come up
• (meet or come to the mind):
• (be present or found):

Related terms

• occurrent
• occurrence

Translations

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