Advent Definition

ădvĕnt
noun
The coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note.
The advent of the computer.
American Heritage
The period including the four Sundays just before Christmas.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage
The birth of Christ.
Webster's New World
The coming of Jesus at the Incarnation.
American Heritage
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pronoun

(Christianity) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

Wiktionary

(Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas.

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Other Word Forms of Advent

Noun

Singular:
advent
Plural:
advents

Origin of Advent

  • Middle English the Advent season from Old French from Latin adventus arrival from past participle of advenīre to come to ad- ad- venīre to come gwā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin adventus (“coming to”), perfect passive participle form of verb advenīre (“come to”).

    From Wiktionary

  • See advent

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Advent Sentence Examples

  • The advent of Thiers, his attitude towards the petition of French bishops on behalf of the pope, the recall of Senard, the French minister at Florencewho had written to congratulate Victor Emmanuel on the capture of Romeand the instructions given to his successor, the comte de Choiseul, to absent himself from Italy at the moment of the kings official entry into the new capital (2nd July 1871), together with the haste displayed in appointing a French ambassador to the Holy See, rapidly cooled the cordiality of Franco-Italian relations, and reassured Bismarck on the score of any dangerous intimacy between the two governments.

  • The advent of Christianity, with its categorical assertion of future happiness for the good, to a large extent did away with pessimism in the true sense.

  • Storytelling changed with the advent of television.

  • The recent advent of constitutional government may improve the condition of the Jews.

  • Could you have foreseen that the advent of a technology called "air conditioning" in homes would alter the social fabric of the nation?

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Words Starting With

AADADV

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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Words Starting With A and Ending With T

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