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/ˈædvˌɛnt/ Listen

noun

Advent n.

(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).

The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. "Death's dreadful advent." "Expecting still his advent home."

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Etymology of 'Advent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... after the Portuguese advent, the Dutch came, but the English did not arrive until 1620, and during the latter part of the seventeenth century the three nations were seeking trade relations. Great toleration and friendliness to other countries seemed to have been practiced even in that early day; French ...

— Travels in the Far East • Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

... be said that the advent of the stranger produced some surprise among the Terpsichorean crowd, into the midst of which he had been so unceremoniously projected. And yet this surprise was not such as might have been expected. One might suppose ...

— The Boy Slaves • Mayne Reid

... were made. The task was so vast it might have discouraged him. He started on his longest and his last journey. There was among the Cherokees a tradition that part of their nation was somewhere in New Mexico, separated from them before the advent of the whites. Se-quo-yah knew this, and expected in his rambles to meet them. He had camped on the spurs of the Rocky Mountains; he had threaded the valleys of New Mexico; looked at the adobe villages of the Pueblos, and among the race, neither Indian ...

— Se-Quo-Yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V. 41, 1870 • Unknown

... of a litter of puppies. He sat slowly down, blew out his chest, passed his hand caressingly down his beard, and looked with drooping eyelids and supercilious eyes at the crowded hall before him. The uproar of his advent had not yet died away when Professor Ronald Murray, the chairman, and Mr. Waldron, the lecturer, threaded their way to the front, and the ...

— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle

... eyes for being so sharp, my pretty Sally," said the man who had just entered, whilst worthy Mr. Jellyband came bustling forward, eager, alert and fussy, as became the advent of one of the most favoured ...

— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

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