MEANING
The arrival, appearance, or beginning of an event, invention, or important development.
Use it for
introducing the emergence of a new development; locating a change relative to a new technology; distinguishing arrival from full adoption or maturityMarks the arrival or beginning of a consequential development without claiming that it caused every later change. Academic functions: Change / Pattern / Trend, Causation / Relationships.
Words that belong together
- the advent of digital media
- the advent of a new method
- before the advent of
On the page
The advent of online archives changed access to sources without eliminating differences in preservation.
The essay distinguishes the advent of the genre from the later development of its familiar conventions.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- advent
Usage notes
Usually singular: the advent of a development. Lowercase advent is the ordinary lexical word here; the capitalized religious proper name is not added as vocabulary. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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