Advent
Advent ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Latin adventus, from advenire, adventum: compare French avent. See Advene.]
1.
(Ecclesiastical) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
Collocations (1)
Advent Sunday (Ecclesiastical) , the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). — Shipley
2.
The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
3.
Coming; any important arrival; approach.
Death's dreadful advent.
Expecting still his advent home.