ˈadˌvent, esp Brit -_vənt; sometimes ədˈvent noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin adventus, from Latin, arrival, from adventus, past participle of advenire to come to
1. usually capitalized : the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by many Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
2. usually capitalized : the coming of Christ:
a. : incarnation
b. : the coming of Christ as judge on the last day — called also Second Advent, Second Coming
3.
[Latin adventus ]
: any coming or arrival
the advent of spring
changes that followed the advent of the railroad and the telegraph
was watched in his advent and departure — Mary Webb
his advent to the presidency was greeted by the guns of Fort Sumter — Edmund Wilson
the advent of the Cold War — New Yorker