ADVENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Advent mean? 

• ADVENT (noun)
  The noun ADVENT has 3 senses:

1. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

2. the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas

3. (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment

  Familiarity information: ADVENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

advent; coming

Context example:

the advent of the computer

Hypernyms ("advent" is a kind of...):

arrival; reaching (accomplishment of an objective)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("Advent" is a kind of...):

season (a recurrent time marked by major holidays)

Meronyms (parts of "Advent"):

Advent Sunday (the first of the four Sundays during Advent)

Holonyms ("Advent" is a part of...):

church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar (a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

Advent; Parousia; Second Advent; Second Coming; Second Coming of Christ

Instance hypernyms:

manifestation (a clear appearance)

Domain category:

Christian theology (the teachings of Christian churches)

 Context examples 

I accept it, Jane; let the daughter have free advent—my arms wait to receive her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“The advent of the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and the 5G era represent unique opportunities for graphene to demonstrate its ultimate potential.”

(Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications, University of Cambridge)

It has become less extensively used with the advent of more selective agonists.

(Ephedrine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Each year one had come from the press, and to me each was the advent of the year.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That was Charles the Second, whose advent was already foreseen.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The advent of Mrs. Gummidge with a basket, explained how the house had happened to be empty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The uproar of his advent had not yet died away when Professor Ronald Murray, the chairman, and Mr. Waldron, the lecturer, threaded their way to the front, and the proceedings began.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then a panic seized the Yeehats, and they fled in terror to the woods, proclaiming as they fled the advent of the Evil Spirit.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I would, Lady Tiphaine, cried the Lady Rochefort, that you would use your power to tell me what hath befallen my golden bracelet which I wore when hawking upon the second Sunday of Advent, and have never set eyes upon since.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While originally applied to the reportage of current events in printed form, specifically newspapers, with the advent of radio and television the use of the term has broadened to include all printed and electronic communication dealing with current affairs.

(Journalism, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)