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advent

noun
/ˈæd.vɛnt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).

  1. borrowed from adventus

Definitions

  1. Arrival

    Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.

    • Death's dreadful advent
    • At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.

  2. To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.

    • The new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.
    • 1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.

  3. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas

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

    2. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after…

      An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church, itself named after the Christian concept.

    3. A civil parish near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England.

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