Definitions for Advent
ˈæd vɛntad·vent

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. advent, comingnoun

   arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

   "the advent of the computer"

2. Adventnoun

   the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas

3. Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Advent, Parousianoun

   (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. adventnoun

   Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.

2. adventnoun

   See Advent.

3. Adventnoun

   The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

4. Adventnoun

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

5. Etymology: See advent

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Adventnoun

   The name of one of the holy seasons, signifying the coming; that is, the coming of our Saviour; which is made the subject of our devotion during the four weeks before Christmas.

   Etymology: from adventus; that is, adventus Redemptoris.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Advent

   Advent is a season observed in most Christian denominations as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for both the celebration of the Nativity of Christ at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming. Advent is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity. The name was adopted from Latin adventus "coming; arrival", translating Greek parousia from the New Testament, originally referring to the Second Coming. The season of Advent in the Christian calendar anticipates the "coming of Christ" from three different perspectives: the physical nativity in Bethlehem, the reception of Christ in the heart of the believer, and the eschatological Second Coming.Practices associated with Advent include Advent calendars, lighting an Advent wreath, praying an Advent daily devotional, erecting a Christmas tree or a Chrismon tree, lighting a Christingle, as well as other ways of preparing for Christmas, such as setting up Christmas decorations, a custom that is sometimes done liturgically through a hanging of the greens ceremony.The analogue of Advent in Eastern Christianity is called the Nativity Fast, but it differs in meaning, length, and observances, and does not begin the liturgical church year as it does in the West. The Eastern Nativity Fast does not use the term parousia in its preparatory services.

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1. advent

   Advent refers to the start or arrival of something significant or important. It is often used in a religious context, specifically with regards to Christianity, to represent the period of anticipation leading up to the birth of Jesus Christ. However, it can also be used more generally to denote the onset or beginning of any major event or occasion.

2. advent

   Advent refers to the arrival or coming of a notable person, thing, or event. In a Christian context, it often refers to the period of preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, starting on a Sunday near the end of November and culminating on Christmas Day.

3. advent

   Advent is the arrival or coming of something significant or noteworthy. In Christian theology, it specifically refers to the period of preparation and anticipation leading up to the birth of Jesus Christ (Christmas), beginning on the fourth Sunday before Christmas.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Adventnoun

   the period including the four Sundays before Christmas

2. Adventnoun

   the first or the expected second coming of Christ

3. Adventnoun

   coming; any important arrival; approach

4. Etymology: [L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf. F. avent. See Advene.]

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1. Advent

   Advent is a season observed in many Western Christian churches as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. The term is an anglicized version of the Latin word adventus, meaning "coming." It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday. The Eastern churches' equivalent of Advent is called the Nativity Fast, but it differs in both length and observances and does not begin the church year, which starts instead on September 1. At least in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Moravian, Presbyterian and Methodist calendars, Advent starts on the fourth Sunday before December 25, which is the Sunday between November 27 and December 3 inclusive. Latin adventus is the translation of the Greek word parousia, commonly used to refer to the Second Coming of Christ. For Christians, the season of Advent anticipates the coming of Christ from two different perspectives. The season offers the opportunity to share in the ancient longing for the coming of the Messiah, and to be alert for his Second Coming.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Advent

   ad′vent, n. a coming or arrival: the first or the second coming of Christ: the period immediately before the festival of the Nativity, including four Sundays—from the first after St Andrew's Day (November 30) to Christmas eve.—n. Ad′ventist, one who believes in the second coming of Christ to set up a kingdom on the earth: a millenarian—adj. Advent′ual (obs.), relating to Advent. [Through Fr. from L. adventus—ad, to, venīre, to come.]

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1. ADVENT

   The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the authors of INTERCAL.) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal Cave Adventure, but the TOPS-10 operating system permitted only six-letter filenames in uppercase. See also vadding, Zork, and Infocom.Figure 1. Screen shot of the original ADVENT game Orange River Chamber You are in a splendid chamber thirty feet high. The walls are frozen rivers of orange stone. An awkward canyon and a good passage exit from east and west sidesof the chamber. A cheerful little bird is sitting here singing. >drop rod Dropped. >take bird You catch the bird in the wicker cage. >take rod Taken. >w At Top of Small Pit At your feet is a small pit breathing traces of white mist. A west passage ends here except for a small crack leading on. Rough stone steps lead down the pit. >down In Hall of Mists You are at one end of a vast hall stretching forward out of sight to the west. There are openings to either side. Nearby, a wide stone staircase leads downward. The hall is filled with wisps of white mist swaying to and fro almost as if alive. A cold wind blows up the staircase. There is a passage at the top of a dome behind you. Rough stone steps lead up the dome. This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: “A huge green fierce snake bars the way!” “I see no X here” (for some noun X). “You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.” “You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different.” The ‘magic words’ xyzzy and plugh also derive from this game.Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually has a Colossal Cave and a Bedquilt as in the game, and the Y2 that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance.ADVENT sources are available for FTP at ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z. You can also play it as a Java applet. There is a good page of resources at the Colossal Cave Adventure Page.

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Matched Categories

1. • Christian Theology
   • Arrival
   • Manifestation
   • Season

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How to pronounce Advent?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

How to say Advent in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Advent in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Advent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Advent in a Sentence

1. Rupert Pratt:

   The advent of digital means there is less need for the event platforms. Fans don't interact with the governing bodies. They engage with the sport, the teams and the individuals.

2. Maxim Behar:

   In 2019 the revolutionary advent of social media has now reached its full swing, and 100 percent of all deeds, thoughts, deals, and acts in our lives are public.

3. Edsger W. Dijkstra:

   The argument against recursive procedures was always an efficiency argument: non-re-entrant code could be executed so much more efficiently. But with the advent of multiprogramming another need for felxible storage allocation has emerged. And if there are still machines in which the use of recursive routines is punished by too heavy a penalty, then I would venture the opinion that the structure of such a machine should now be called somewhat old-fashioned.

4. Henry J. Tillman:

   The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

5. Henry J. Tillman:

   The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Advent
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Advent
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Advent
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Advent
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Advent
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Advent
9. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Advent
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Advent