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Advert vs Advent - What's the difference?

advert | advent |

As nouns the difference between advert and advent

is that advert is an advertisement, an ad while advent is coming; coming to; approach; arrival.

As a verb advert

is to turn attention.

As a proper noun Advent is

the first or the expected second coming of Christ.

advert

English

(wikipedia advert)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British, informal) An advertisement, an ad.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd
    • , work=BBC citation , passage=This was a wonderful advert for the Premier League, with both Chelsea and United intent on all-out attack - but Ferguson will be concerned at how his side lost their way after imperiously controlling much of the first period. }}
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To turn attention.
  • To call attention, refer; construed with to.
  • *1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:
  • *:‘I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief. But it is not to this fact that I now especially advert .’
  • * 2007 September 9, the , Austria:
    • At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously advert to this dimension of Sunday, too.

    Synonyms

    * refer

    Derived terms

    * advertence * advertency * advertent * advertently * inadvertent * inadvertently

    advent

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.
  • * Young
    • Death's dreadful advent
  • * 1853 , , "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0146000129, p. 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.
  • (religion, Christianity, always capitalized) See Advent.

    • Synonyms

    * (coming) arrival, approach, oncome, onset

    Related terms

    * Advent * advene * Adventist * Advent Sunday * adventual * Advent wreath