Hypertext Webster Gateway: "advent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
advent
n 1: 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
[syn: {Advent}]
3: (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for
the Last Judgment [syn: {Second Coming}, {Second Advent},
{Advent}]
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