Usually means: Period anticipating Christmas, preparation, arrival.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word advent:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Advent: Merriam-Webster
  2. Advent, advent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. advent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. advent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Advent, advent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Advent, advent: Wordnik
  7. Advent, advent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Advent, advent: Wiktionary
  9. Advent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. advent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. advent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Advent: Dictionary.com
  13. advent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. advent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Advent (band), Advent (disambiguation), Advent, The Advent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Advent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. advent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. advent: Rhymezone
  19. advent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. advent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Advent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. advent: FreeDictionary.org
  23. advent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. advent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. advent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. Advent: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. advent: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ADVENT: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Advent: CCI Computer
  3. Advent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Advent: Holidays Around the World
  3. ADVENT: Acronym Finder

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)
  3. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Advent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Advent)

noun:  Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears.
verb:  To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.
noun:  (Christianity) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
noun:  (Christianity) The period or season of the Christian church year between Advent Sunday and Christmas.
noun:  A civil parish near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England; derived from Saint Adwen or Adwenna.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, named after a local church.

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