The season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
Noun
arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer"
Noun
(Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
Noun
the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
n.
The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
n.
The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
n.
Coming; any important arrival; approach.
Advent
Death's dreadful advent.
Expecting still his advent home.
The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
Usage Examples
I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
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Other Usage ExamplesA poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.
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