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advent
/ˈædˌvɛnt/
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What does advent mean?
noun
- Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
verb
- To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
proper noun
- The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas: the period of the advent (approaching) of Christmas.
- An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church, itself named after the Christian concept.
- A civil parish near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈædˌvɛnt/
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Competition is necessary to the constitution of value,--that is, to the very principle of distribution, and consequently to the advent of equality.
The significance of this is that the art of writing was known in Europe long before the advent of the mythical Kadmus.
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With the advent of the fateful Ides of March, winter ii had practically set in, and work outside had a chequered career.
They have no love for the limelight, and would be distinctly annoyed should their advent be heralded with a flourish of trumpets.
The advent of the baby-carriage has rather facilitated than hindered this old-time employment of the child in the last century or so.