advent

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

   the advent of the computer

2. 2
   noun

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

   Death's dreadful advent

3. 3
   verb

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

   1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al. But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?

4. 4
   noun

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

5. 5
   noun

   the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas

6. 6
   name

   The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

7. 7
   name

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

8. 8
   name

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

Etymology

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