1) Approach 2) Arrival 3) Coming 4) Dawn 5) Eventuality 6) Influx 7) Onset 8) Parousia
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1) Arrival 2) Arrival that has been awaited 3) Beginning 4) Candle-lighting season 5) Christian observance 6) Coming 7) Commencement 8) December observance 9) French boy name 10) Onset 11) Period before Christmas 12) Pre-christmas period 13) Pre-Christmas season 14) Reaching 15) Second Coming 16) Start
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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`. Advent is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday. The Eastern.....
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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
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• (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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(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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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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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 dreadful advent.' (Young) 'Expecting still his ad...
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The coming (or second coming) of Jesus Christ; the month leading up to Christmas. Also in modern day
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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.) ,
the first Sunday in the season of Advent, be...
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The beginning of the church year. Starts on the Sunday nearest November 30th (St. Andrew's day) until Christmas. Advent is from the Latin meaning coming or arrival.
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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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Advent is the time before Christmas when we get ready to welcome Jesus into our lives.
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[n] - the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas 2. [n] - arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
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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 Judge, and the Coming of the Holy Spirit as at Pente...
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c/f Liturgical Seasons below.
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noun arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); `the advent of the computer`
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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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a coming into place, view, or being; arrival: the advent of the holiday season. · (usually cap.) the coming of Christ into the world. · (cap.) the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, observed in commemoration of the coming of Christ into the world. · (usually cap.) See
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