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Advent

Advent Definition And Meaning
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.

Advent Definition And Meaning

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

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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