Advent
English Meaning
The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.
- The coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important: the advent of the computer.
- The liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning in Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and in Eastern churches in mid-November, and observed by many Christians as a season of prayer, fasting, and penitence.
- Christianity The coming of Jesus at the Incarnation.
- Christianity See Second Coming.