Definition of Advent
1 : the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting
2a : the coming of Christ at the Incarnation (see incarnation 1a(2))b : second coming
3 not capitalized : a coming into being or use the advent of spring the advent of pasteurization the advent of personal computers
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