Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note.
- noun The liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning in Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and in Eastern churches in mid-November, and observed by many Christians as a season of prayer, fasting, and penitence.
- noun The coming of Jesus at the Incarnation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coming into place, view, or being; visitation; arrival; accession: as, the advent of visitors, of an infant, or of death.
- noun Specifically The coming of Christ as the Saviour of the world. Hence [capitalized] Eccles., the period immediately preceding the festival of the Nativity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
- noun (Eccl.) the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).
- noun The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
- noun Coming; any important arrival; approach.
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- noun
Coming ; coming to;approach ;arrival . - noun religion, Christianity See
Advent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
- noun arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
- noun (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
Etymologies
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(The word "advent" comes from the Latin word that means
Jesus Creed 2009
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Even in advent, we usually try and find time during the evening to light candles and sing a song or two.
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To await its advent is to adopt a policy of indefinite drift, and possibly lose an opportunity that may never be so favourable again.
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No; social intercourse may be long in coming, but its advent is sure; the mischief is already done.
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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Zerubbabel's kingdom was not independent and settled; also all the prophets end their prophecies with Messiah, whose advent is the cure of all previous disorders.
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As Jehovah's advent is glorious to His people, so it is terrible to His foes. burning coals -- Ps 18: 8 favors English Version.
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Highlights of this title The advent of VoiceXML, the open standard for IVR and next-generation IVR platforms, is helping businesses to re-evaluate the strategic value of IVR in the enterprise.
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Hence His human nature could not [4151] be understood, prior to the consummation of those things which had been predicted, that is, the advent of Christ.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Until, that is, the advent of Minimalism, an ethos so certain of its rightness, both aesthetic and historic, that it stands in the causeway of late 20th-century art as the most intractable of obstacles.
jeen0809 commented on the word advent
The arrival of the television surprised many people.
March 30, 2007
dbekeny commented on the word advent
WIZARD
Times being what they were, I accepted the
job, -- retaining my balloon against the
advent of a quick get-away.
(laughs)
And in that balloon, my dear Dorothy, you
and I will return to the land of E Pluribus
Unum!
June 7, 2010