Look up: Advent

1. advent
   [n] - the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas 2. [n] - arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
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2. Advent
   In the Christian calendar, which follows the life of Jesus, the period of preparation before his birth on Christmas Day. It begins four Sundays before Christmas on Advent Sunday; the date varies...
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3. Advent
   Ad`vent noun [ Latin adventus , from advenire , adventum : confer French avent . See Advene .] 1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent Sunday (Eccl.) ,...
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4. advent
   1. The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent Sunday, the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). ... 2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ. ... 3. Coming; any important arrival; approach. 'Death's...
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5. advent
   noun arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); `the advent of the computer`
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6. Advent
   • (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.
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7. Advent
   (from Latin adventus, `coming`), in the Christian church calendar, the period of preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ at ... [3 related articles]
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8. Advent
   Advent is a French boy name. The meaning of the name is `Born during Advent` The name Advent doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Advent seems to be unique!
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9. Advent
   Advent 1. In the ecclesiastical calendar, the season immediately preceding the festival of the Nativity, now including the four preceding Sundays; from Latin, adventus, 'arrival'. 2. The Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour of the world; the Incarnation; hence his expected Second Coming as Ju...
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10. Advent
    Advent [Lat.,=coming], season of the Christian ecclesiastical year preceding Christmas, lasting in the West from the Sunday nearest Nov. 30 (St. Andrew's Day) until Christmas Eve. In the Roman Catholic Church it is traditionally considered a season of penitence and fasting, to prepare for the holy d...
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11. Advent
    Advent was the prototypical computer adventure game, first implemented on the PDP-10 by Will Crowther as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods. Now better known as Adventure, but the TOPS-10 operating system permitted only six-letter filenames.
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12. Advent
    In the Christian calendar, which follows the life of Jesus, the period of preparation before his birth on Christmas Day. It begins four Sundays before Christmas on Advent Sunday; the date varies depending on which day of the week Christmas falls
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13. ADVENT
    (games) /ad'vent/ The prototypical computer Adventure game, first implemented by Will Crowther for a CDC computer (probably the CDC 6600?) as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming. ADVENT was ported to the PDP-10, and expanded to the 350-point Classic puzzle-oriented version, by Don Woods o...
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14. Advent
    `Advent` (from the Latin word meaning "coming") is a season observed in many Western Christian churches, a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas. It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday,...
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15. Advent
    (band) `Advent` is a Kernersville, North Carolina-based hardcore band currently signed to Solid State Records. The band features former members Beloved, and is considered a pseudo-continuation<ref name="JFHRemoveReview">--> of Beloved. The band has released two albums under the l...
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