the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas or (in Eastern Orthodox churches) the forty days preceding Christmas
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ad•vent /ˈædvɛnt/USA pronunciation
n.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- an arrival;
appearance;
commencement:[countable]the advent of the holiday season. - [proper noun* usually: Advent]
- the coming of Christ into the world.
- Religionthe period beginning four Sundays before Christmas commemorating the Advent of Christ.
ad•vent
(ad′vent),USA pronunciation n.
- 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 Second Coming.
- Latin adventus arrival, approach, equivalent. to ad- ad- + ven- (stem of venīre to come) + -tus suffix of verbal action
- Middle English 1125–75
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged onset, beginning, commencement, start.
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an arrival or coming, esp one which is awaited
'Advent' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Adv.
- Advent Sunday
- Advent calendar
- Adventist
- Day of the Lord
- Devonian
- Eocene
- Jurassic
- Ordovician
- Paleozoic
- Parousia
- Pleistocene
- Second Advent
- Second Coming
- Silurian
- Toltec
- Triassic
- Trinitytide
- adventive
- adventure
- apocalypticism
- appearance
- arrival
- coming
- cretaceous
- dawn
- end
- incoming
- invasion
- millerite
- outdate
- post-Advent
- season