Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To accede or come; be added or become a part, though not essential.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To accede, or come (
to ); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare To
accede or to come to; to besuperadded to, to be added to something or become a part of it, though inessential.
Etymologies
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From Latin advenire ("to come to, arrive at"), from ad ("to") + venire ("to come"). Compare convene, intervene, supervene.
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Examples
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Within the last 19 years, it had risen to within one-third of the total of the company's trade: this too, notwithstanding it was a trade not carried on by those interested in its extension, but ntthef through the medium of an advene commerce.
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... 1813
dhuber commented on the word advene
MW - "intransitive verb : to become added to something or become a part of it
transitive verb : to come to or reach"
September 25, 2008
biocon commented on the word advene
In addition, advene (transitive verb) means "to come to, reach" (Oxford English Dictionary).
June 29, 2011