Advent

Definitions: Advent

Advent

Noun

1. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer".

2. The season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas.

3. (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment.

Date "advent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Etymology: Advent \Ad`vent\, noun. [Latin expression adventus, from advenire, adventum: compare to the French expression avent. See Advene.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	ADVENT /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will Crowther on the PDP-10 in the mid-1970s as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the authors of INTERCAL.) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal Cave Adventure, but the {TOPS-10 operating system permitted only six-letter filenames. See also vadding, Zork, and Infocom. This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different." The `magic words' xyzzy and plugh also derive from this game. Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually _has_ a `Colossal Cave' and a `Bedquilt' as in the game, and the `Y2' that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance. ADVENT sources are available for FTP at `ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z'. There is a Colossal Cave Adventure page (http://people.delphi.com/rickadams/adventure/index.html). Source: Jargon File.
Literature	Advent Four weeks to commemorate the first and second coming of Christ; the first to redeem, and the second to judge the world. The season begins on St. Andrew's Day, or the Sunday nearest to it. (Latin, ad-ventus, the coming to.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Advent

Synonym: coming (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Approach	Noun: approach, approximation, appropinquation; access; appulse; afflux, affluxion; advent; (approach of time); pursuit.
Arrival	Noun: arrival, advent; landing; debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur.
Eventuality	Noun: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent.
Futurity	Approach of time advent, time drawing on, womb of time; destiny; eventuality.
Rite	Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint's DAy, All Souls' Day
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Advent

English words defined with "advent": Ad-, Advent Sunday, Adventist, Adventual, alter ♦ change, coming ♦ Second Advent, Second Adventist, settled. (references)

Specialty definitions using "advent": 25231 ♦ Clerical Vestments, Colours for Church Decoration, CPU Wars ♦ FidoNet, full-seam mining, fully qualified domain name ♦ games, Gramophone ♦ I see no X here. ♦ Lightning ♦ Marriages, memory leak ♦ object-oriented programming, Operating System/Multiprogramming of Fixed Tasks ♦ plugh, Pollio ♦ Ring One's Own Bell ♦ Uar, USENET. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Advent" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (advent), Danish (advent), Dutch (advent), German (advent), Hungarian (advent), Swedish (advent).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Advent (1956)

The Advent of Jane (1912)

Unexpected Advent of the School Teacher (1898)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Advent Software Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Christmas Tree Advent Calendar (reference) Let Every Heart Prepare: Meditations for Advent and Christmas (reference) The Story of Christmas: Story Book Set & Advent Calendar [WALL CALENDAR] (reference) What Can We Learn from the Christ Child: An Advent Study for Adults (reference) While We Wait: Living the Questions of Advent (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Advent Christian Witness (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	New Advent. Of Mother Goose (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Advent of the Organ Recital (reference) Bach - Cantatas BWV 36, 61, 62 ~ Advent / Argenta, P. Lang, Rolf Johnshon, B�r, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner (reference) Wait with Me: Advent of the Promised Son (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Advent AS1 6" 2-Way Bookshelfs (Pair) (reference) Advent AW870 Wireless Powered Speakers (Pair) (reference) Advent Wireless Bookshelf Speakers (AW820) (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Truck and trailer of the gravity party The advent of trailers spelled the end of the great tent camps in the Lower 48 Gravity party of Carl I. Aslakson.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	This disappearance of the great man was necessary for the advent of the great century.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	On and on and on and on he strode, far out over the sands, singing wildly to the sea, crying to greet the advent of the life that had cried to him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Before the advent of effective adjuvant chemotherapy, post-mastectomy radiotherapy was commonly employed. (references)
		Over time, weaknesses have emerged in these criteria, a problem accentuated by the advent of molecular testing. (references)
Business		The second was the advent of the new market economy. (references)
		A very new development has been the advent of telematics or in-car electronic systems. (references)
		The space devoted to filing cabinets was reduced with the advent of computers and digital files. (references)
Children	Afghanistan	There were reports that the ban on women working outside the home hampered the education of boys, since a large percentage of the country's teachers were women prior the advent of Taliban rule. (references)
Economic History	Australia	The Government claims that the Act is the advent of a new way of thinking about electricity. (references)
	Chad	Although relations with Libya improved with the advent of the Deby government, strains persist. (references)
Human Rights	Italy	In July the Chairman of the Privacy Authority warned that the advent of software, capable of sending millions of emails a day, raised new questions about the nature of privacy rights, and that there was a risk to citizens privacy by new technology, which could expose citizens' personal data to access by unauthorized persons. (references)
Political Economy	Sao Tome and Principe	No defense expenditures have been used for lethal weapons since the advent of multiparty democracy in 1990. The economy is based largely on the export of a single product, cocoa, produced on formerly state-run plantations. (references)
	INDIA	At the federal level, the abolition of industrial licensing for many sectors, the convertibility of the rupee on trade and current account transactions, and the advent of a regulatory approach more conducive to investment and competition have produced a change in the Indian business climate. (references)
Trade	Poland	With the gradual installation of new telecommunications equipment and services and the advent of increased competition between domestic and foreign banks, services are becoming increasingly more user-friendly and efficient. (references)
	New Zealand	These institutions are regulated by the Securities Commission (Securities Act 1978). There has been ongoing discussion within the local banking community to achieve a level playing field in the context of regulation, brought about by the advent of insurance companies ownership and operation of banks. (references)
	Slovak Rep	Other methods of financing include: (1) the Prague-based venture capital firms such as Renaissance and Advent, that have expanded their operations to include Slovakia; (2) the Slovak-American Enterprise Fund, which was endowed by the U.S. Congress and provides support for the growth of the Slovak SMEs; and, (3) the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Advent" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.51% of the time. "Advent" is used about 722 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.51%	704	9,502
Noun (proper)	1.52%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.97%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	722	N/A

1. Advent, WV
Zip Code(s): 25231
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Expressions: Advent

Expressions using "advent": Advent Sunday ♦ second advent ♦ the advent. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Advent

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
advent	461
advent speaker	169
advent new	91
advent wireless speaker	71
advent logic	70
advent calendar	52
advent tv	50
advent software	42
advent television	41
advent international	40
advent marbl	40
advent wreath	34
advent lighting	26
advent wireless	24
advent aw810	20
advent computer	19
advent wireless outdoor speaker	19
advent product development	18
advent audio	18
advent rising	16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Advent

Language		Translations for "advent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ardhje (accession, approach, arrival, coming, flow, inflow, ingoing), mbërritje (arrival), lindja e ktishtit. (various references)

Arabic		‏مجئ المسيح إلى العالم مرة ثانية, ‏مجئ المسيح, ‏مجئ, ‏ورود, ‏حلول, ‏أيام الأحد الأربعة السابقة للميلاد. (various references)

Bulgarian		настъпване (oncoming), появяване (apparition, appearance, emergence, emersion, entry, uprise), появява (appearance), идване (oncoming). (various references)

Chinese		出现 (Appear, Appearance, Appeared, Appearing, figured, figuring), 到來 (arrival). (various references)

Czech		advent, příchod (arrival, coming, entry). (various references)

Danish		Advent. (various references)

Dutch		Advent. (various references)

Esperanto		advento. (various references)

Farsi		ظهور(چهاریکشنبه قبل ازمیلادمسیح). (various references)

French		Avent. (various references)

German		Advent, Beginn (beg., beginning, beginning(of the month), commencement, dawn, inauguration, inception, induction, initiation, morning, onset, opening, origin, outset, source, start, threshold), Anbruch (beginning, birth, dawn, dawning, fall). (various references)

Greek		έλευση (coming). (various references)

Hebrew		�"ת�'לות (emergence, exposure, revelation), �"ופע�" (appearance, arrival, bearing, coming, emergence, phenomenon, presence, showing). (various references)

Hungarian		megérkezés (arrival), eljövetel (coming), megjelenés (appearance, attendance, check in, epiphany, figure, guise, issue, look, mien, presence, turn out, turnout). (various references)

Indonesian		datangnya. (various references)

Italian		Avvento (coming). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		降臨 (descent), 訪れ (arrival, call, visit), 来臨 (attendance, coming, presence, visit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おとずれ (arrival, call, visit), �"うり�" (descent, halo, rear wheel), らいり�" (attendance, coming, presence, visit). (various references)

Korean		출현 (Emergence, Emergences). (various references)

Manx		Yn cheet, cheet nyn Jiarn (nativity), cheet (allude, allusion, appear, befall, comeapproach, encounter, entrance, infer, insinuate, locate, refer, succession). (various references)

Pig Latin		adventay

Portuguese		Advento (coming). (various references)

Romanian		apariţie (apparition, appearance, arrival, birth, emergence, entry, ghost, issue, occurrence, peep, phantom, shape, sight, spectre, vision), venire (arrival, coming, incoming, return), sosire (arrival, coming, incoming), postul crãciunului, naşterea lui hristos. (various references)

Russian		приход (arrival, benefice, coming, curacy, parish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pojava (appearance, epiphany, phenomenon), nastup (appearance, attack, bout, burst, conniption, fit, flash, onset, seizure), dolazak (arrival, coming). (various references)

Spanish		adviento, advenimiento (accession). (various references)

Swedish		ankomst (arrival, coming, incoming, oncoming), advent. (various references)

Turkish		noel öncesi dört hafta, isa'nın görünmesi, gelme (arrival, coming), gelip çatma. (various references)

Ukranian		прихід (approach, ascension, coming), пришестя (coming), прибуття (arrival). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự đến (accession, arrival, coming). (various references)

Welsh		yr Adfent. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Advent

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adventu, adventui, adventum, Adventus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Advent

Derivations
	Words beginning with "advent": adventitia, adventitial, adventitias, adventitious, adventitiously, adventive, adventives, advents, adventure, adventured, adventurer, adventurers, adventures, adventuresome, adventuresomeness, adventuresomenesses, adventuress, adventuresses, adventuring, adventurism, adventurisms, adventurist, adventuristic, adventurists, adventurous, adventurously, adventurousness, adventurousnesses. (additional references)
	Words containing "advent": misadventure, misadventures, peradventure, peradventures, unadventurous. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Advent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abdent, adbent, Adenet, adeno, adent, Adient, adjent, adment, advant, adve, advect, Adventu, adventy, advest, advient, Advin, avent, Davent. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Advent"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "advent" (pronounced a"dve'nt)
3	-e' n t	disorient, Orient, president, torment.
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Anagrams: Advent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-t-v"
	-1 letter: anted, daven, vaned.
	-2 letters: ante, date, dean, dent, deva, etna, nave, neat, tend, vane, vena, vend, vent.
	-3 letters: and, ane, ant, ate, ave, den, dev, eat, end, eta, nae, net, tad, tae, tan, tav, tea, ted, ten, van, vat, vet.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, an, at, de, ed, en, et, na, ne, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-t-v"
	+1 letter: advents, deviant, vaunted, verdant.
	+2 letters: deviants, divalent, donative, levanted, vanadate, vanitied, vendetta.
	+3 letters: advantage, advecting, advection, adventive, adventure, advertent, adverting, davenport, denervate, deviating, deviation, donatives, enervated, innovated, invocated, navigated, negatived, renovated, vanadates, vendettas, venenated, venerated, verdantly, vindicate.
	+4 letters: adjunctive, advantaged, advantages, advections, adventitia, adventives, adventured, adventurer, adventures, advertence, advertency, advisement, animadvert, anteverted, covenanted, davenports, denervated, denervates, denotative, derivation, detonative, deviations, devotional, dominative, drivetrain, eventuated, evidential, galavanted, galivanted, incurvated, indicative, indurative, innervated, invalidate, nondeviant, outvaunted, untraveled, vacationed, vaccinated, ventilated, vindicated, vindicates.
	+5 letters: advancement, adventitial, adventitias, adventurers, adventuress, adventuring, adventurism, adventurist, adventurous, advertences, advertently, advertising, advertizing, advisements, animadverts, contravened, delineative, denervating, denervation, denigrative, depravation, depravement, deprivation, derivations, designative, devaluating, devaluation, devastating, devastation, devotionals, dovetailing, drivetrains, evidentiary, gallivanted, inactivated, inadvertent, indicatives, individuate, interleaved, interweaved, invaginated, invalidated, invalidates, invigilated, invigorated, maidservant, nonadaptive, nonadditive, nondeviants, overplanted, overtrading, overtrained, rejuvenated, servanthood, transvalued, underactive, undeviating, unevaluated, unharvested, unmotivated, untraversed, vaginitides, valediction, vaticinated, veratridine, videotaping, vindicative, vineyardist.
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