Definitions for Advent

Advent ad·vent

Spelling: [ad-vent]
IPA: /ˈæd vɛnt/

Advent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in Advent (adentv).

Definitions for Advent

noun

  1. a coming into place, view, or being; arrival:
  2. (usually initial capital letter) the coming of Christ into the world.
  3. (initial capital letter) the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, observed in commemoration of the coming of Christ into the world.
  4. (usually initial capital letter) Second Coming.
  5. the coming of Christ on Judgment Day.

Origin of Advent

1125-75; Middle English Latin adventus arrival, approach, equivalent to ad- ad- + ven- (stem of venīre to come) + -tus suffix of verbal action

Examples for Advent

The visitor's advent was announced again by the brass knocker on the front door.

The effect was, indeed, presently accomplished by the advent of Smithson into the office.

He had so long and so passionately looked for the advent of that moment!

"I think your mother wants to speak to you, Frank," Alice said, upon this advent.

But with the advent of the boys from the barn there appeared reinforcements of the enemy.

They told me that advent was all about waiting and hoping – that they were indeed a community of waiting and hoping.

The writer A. Lezhnev said, “I view the incident with Shostakovich as the advent of the same ‘order’ that burns books in Germany.”

Like Lent, the season of advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden.

Then came the horrors of World War I, with the advent of tanks and airplanes and poison gas.

I would venture to say that advent is something America needs right now, religious or not.

Word Value for Advent
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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