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Advent \Ad`vent\, n. [L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf F. avent. See advene.]

  1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas Advent Sunday (Eccl.), 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. --Young
    Expecting still his advent home. --Tennyson
  4. The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s
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