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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
advent
noun
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Advent calendar
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▪ However, it was the advent of television which really transformed sportsmen.
▪ The advent of natural gas for use in the ammonia process occurred in the early 1970s.
▪ The advent of policy activism implied an adherence to policy rules radically different from those which had been applied previously.
▪ The advent of scientific thinking has institutionalised the idea that knowledge has to progress and can do so only through research.
▪ The most alarming statistic was the state of the game before the advent of this precipitous decline.
▪ This type of person continued to visit the island until the 1960s and the advent of air travel for all.
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Advent

Advent \Ad`vent\, n. [L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf. F. avent. See Advene.]

  1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

    Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).
    --Shipley.

  2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

  3. Coming; any important arrival; approach.

    Death's dreadful advent.
    --Young.

    Expecting still his advent home.
    --Tennyson.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
advent

"important arrival," 1742, an extended sense of Advent "season before Christmas" (Old English), from Latin adventus "a coming, approach, arrival," in Church Latin "the coming of the Savior," from past participle stem of advenire "arrive, come to," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + venire "to come" (see venue). In English, also sometimes extended to the Pentecost.

Wiktionary
advent

n. 1 coming; coming to; approach; arrival. 2 (context religion Christianity always capitalized English) See Advent.

WordNet
advent

  1. n. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer" [syn: coming]

  2. the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas

  3. (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment [syn: Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Parousia]

Wikipedia
Advent

Advent is a season observed in many Western Christian churches as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. The term is a version of the Latin word meaning "coming".

Latin is the translation of the Greek word parousia, commonly used to refer to the Second Coming of Christ. For Christians, the season of Advent anticipates the coming of Christ from two different perspectives. The season offers the opportunity to share in the ancient longing for the coming of the Messiah, and to be alert for his Second Coming.

Advent is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on the fourth Sunday before Christmas, the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day , in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, and in the Anglican, Lutheran, Moravian, Presbyterian and Methodist calendars. In the Ambrosian Rite and the Mozarabic Rite of the Catholic Church, Advent begins on the sixth Sunday before Christmas, the Sunday after St. Martin's Day .

Practices associated with Advent include keeping an Advent calendar, lighting an Advent wreath, praying an Advent daily devotional, as well as other ways of preparing for Christmas, such as setting up Christmas decorations, a custom that is sometimes done liturgically, through a hanging of the greens ceremony.

The equivalent of Advent in Eastern Christianity is called the Nativity Fast, but it differs in length and observances, and does not begin the liturgical church year as it does in the West. The Eastern Nativity Fast does not use the equivalent parousia in its preparatory services.

Advent (disambiguation)

Advent is a season in the Christian calendar preceding Christmas. It is synonymous with the secularized Christmas season.

Advent may also refer to:

Advent (band)

Advent is a hardcore band from Kernersville, North Carolina. The band featured members of an earlier post-hardcore band named Beloved, and was formed in 2005 after the break of Beloved. The band had released two albums under the label Solid State Records. The band announced in July 2011 that they had disbanded, and held two final shows on September 2 and 3 in South Carolina and North Carolina, respectively. The band, as of 2015, had reunited and is releasing a new album titled, Pain and Suffering.

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If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century--any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America--or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.

Then, as the season of winter put a term to war, the King and Queen of the English withdrew well within their own frontiers with the heir of England and the Princess of France and a goodly company of nobles to keep the time of Advent in the seat of the Angevin counts in Le Mans.

Thirdly, we have unquestionable proofs that, during the period from the Babylonish captivity to the advent of Christ, the Jews borrowed and adapted a great deal from the Persian theology, but no proof that the Persians took any thing from the Jewish theology.

But, even as he spoke, further plans were put out of the question by the advent of six men who had come quietly through the Beallach from the Sanctuary, and had unostentatiously taken up positions in a circle around the two ex-antagonists.

With the advent of the Tokugawa period, this reaction spread to the intellectual field and stimulated a great Confucian revival.

Had he but known it the advent of Lucy Dalles in Ragtown was to have a great deal to do with the future fortunes of both Jerkline Jo and himself.

But on the advent of new war, against the ugly, blood-soaked memories still carried from the past campaign in Strakewood, Lord Commander Diegan desperately wished back his lost equilibrium.

Before the advent of the Draining Tile, covered drains were furnished with stones, boards, brush, weeds, and various other rubbish, and their good effect, very properly, claimed the attention of all improvers of wet land.

Andrew on November 30, at the beginning of Advent, and working through the Christian Year to the following November 29, when the Saints Saturninus, Perpetua, and Felicitas exerted their benign influence.

Britain, man of sufficient intelligence to fashion flints and to build a fire, before the close of the Pliocene time and before the advent of the First Glaciation.

Before the advent of agriculture, the only carbohydrates available to mankind were fruits and vegetables, and hence our genes were adapted for this type of low-density carbohydrate consumption.

Stephen did not like the advent of another sister, for it took some of the limelight away from his ironbound leg.

About the Italians from Etruria and Umbria he could do little save compose a stunning speech for use upon their advent in the Forum.

Judging from the analogy furnished by the Kansa tribe it was very probably the rule before the advent of the white race that a Biloxi man could not marry a woman of his own clan.

Early in April, 1832, Monsieur Grossetete came to see the land bought for him by Gerard, though his journey was chiefly occasioned by the advent of Catherine Curieux, who had come from Paris to Limoges by the diligence.