Advent

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  • noun. The coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note.
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  • noun. The liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning in Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and in Eastern churches in mid-November, and observed by many Christians as a season of prayer, fasting, and penitence.
  • noun. The coming of Jesus at the Incarnation.
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  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A coming into place, view, or being; visitation; arrival; accession: as, the advent of visitors, of an infant, or of death.
  • noun. Specifically The coming of Christ as the Saviour of the world. Hence [capitalized] Eccles., the period immediately preceding the festival of the Nativity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
  • noun. the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).
  • noun. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
  • noun. Coming; any important arrival; approach.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.
  • noun. See Advent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
  • noun. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
  • noun. (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
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