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Advent definition

Ad·vent (ad′vent′)

noun

  1. the period including the four Sundays just before Christmas
  2. Theol.
    1. the birth of Christ
    2. Second Coming
  3. a coming or arrival

Etymology: ME & OFr avent < ML adventus < pp. of L advenire, to come < ad-, to + venire, come

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