advent

Speech parts

1. advent - Noun

2. advent - Verb

3. Advent - Proper noun

Meaning

The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

Coming; any important arrival; approach.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

approach coming arrival onset beginning start appearance birth introduction entrance emergence inception second coming parousia Second Advent
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Antonyms

omega exodus finis grim reaper end death
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Hypernyms

season reaching arrival

Related terms

adventure advene

Phrases with the word

Advent candle reverse Advent calendar advent star sunday of advent

Examples

No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. William L. Shirer

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. Dee Hock

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes. Islom Karimov

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. James Henry Breasted

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is. Donald Norman

Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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