advent Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
    coming.
    • the advent of the computer
  2. noun the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
  3. noun (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
    Second Coming of Christ; Parousia; Second Advent; Second Coming.

WordNet

Ad`vent noun
Etymology
L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf. F. avent. See Advene.
Definitions
  1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. Shipley.
  2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
  3. Coming; any important arrival; approach.
    Death's dreadful advent. Young.
    Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

Webster 1913