advent
Collocations
4ADJ.
delighted, dreadful, free, indoor, preceding, shining, special
VERB + ADVENT
adapt, celebrates, disappeared, progress
ADVENT + NOUN
agriculture, algeria, antibiotics, bartleby, calendar, calendars, candles, euro
PREP.
about, after, in, onto, with
Definitions
noun
Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.
Death's dreadful advent
At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
verb
To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al. But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?
The new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.
name
The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas: the period of the advent (approaching) of Christmas.
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church, itself named after the Christian concept.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momen
noun — (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for
- parousia
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6Death's dreadful advent
WiktionaryAt the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
WiktionaryThe car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second h
Wiktionary1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al. But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to
WiktionaryThe new Democratic war-horse from Calaveras has lately advented in the Legislature with a little bill to change the name of Tretherick to Starbottle.
Wiktionary1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented ma
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