About The Word Advent
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Advent
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What's The Definition Of Advent?
[n] arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer"
[n] (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment [n] the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas Synonyms | Synonyms for Advent: coming | Second Advent | Second Coming Related Terms | Find terms related to Advent: access | accession | accomplishment | achievement | advance | afflux | affluxion | Allhallowmas | Allhallows | Allhallowtide | Annunciation | Annunciation Day | appearance | approach | approach of time | approaching | appropinquation | approximation | appulse | arrival | Ascension Day | Ash Wednesday | attainment | Candlemas | Candlemas Day | Carnival | Christmas | coming | coming near | coming toward | Corpus Christi | Easter | Easter Monday | Easter Saturday | Easter Sunday | Eastertide | Ember days | Epiphany | flowing toward | forthcoming | Good Friday | Halloween | Hallowmas | Holy Thursday | Holy Week | imminence | Lady Day | Lammas | Lammas Day | Lammastide | Lent | Lententide | Mardi Gras | Martinmas | Maundy Thursday | Michaelmas | Michaelmas Day | Michaelmastide | nearing | nearness | oncoming | Palm Sunday | Pancake Day | Passion Week | Pentecost | proximation | Quadragesima | Quadragesima Sunday | reaching | Septuagesima | Shrove Tuesday | time drawing on | Trinity Sunday | Twelfth-day | Twelfth-tide | White Sunday | Whitmonday | Whitsun | Whitsunday | Whitsuntide | Whit-Tuesday | Whitweek See Also | Advent Sunday | arrival | church calendar | ecclesiastical calendar | manifestation | reaching | season Advent In Webster's Dictionary \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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