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advent
[ ad-vent ]
noun
- a coming into place, view, or being; arrival:
the advent of the holiday season.
Synonyms: start, commencement, beginning, onset
- Usually Advent. the coming of Christ into the world.
- Advent, the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, observed in commemoration of the coming of Christ into the world.
- Usually Advent. Second Coming.
Advent
1/ -vənt; ˈædvɛnt /
noun
- Christianity the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas or (in Eastern Orthodox churches) the forty days preceding Christmas
advent
2/ ˈædvɛnt; -vənt /
noun
- an arrival or coming, esp one which is awaited
Advent
- The coming of Jesus , either in the Incarnation of biblical times or in the Second Coming at the end of the world. Also, a time observed in many Christian churches in December to prepare for Christmas .
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Origin of advent1
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Example Sentences
Like Lent, the season of Advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden.
I would venture to say that Advent is something America needs right now, religious or not.
They told me that Advent was all about waiting and hoping – that they were indeed a community of waiting and hoping.
Then came the horrors of World War I, with the advent of tanks and airplanes and poison gas.
The writer A. Lezhnev said, “I view the incident with Shostakovich as the advent of the same ‘order’ that burns books in Germany.”
But his eyes and ears were alert, and he was the first to hear the advent of a large body of horses along the main road.
These gorgeous tea-cups were never used but on high-days and holidays, or on the advent of any particular visitors.
It was not indispensable to the human race during the thousands (I say millions) of years before its advent.
One would think, to read the Christian apologists, that before the advent of Christianity the world had neither virtue nor wisdom.
The social position of the Chinese permitted to remain in the Islands has changed since the American advent.
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