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# advent

«advent» in Mova's school dictionary: **the season of about four weeks before Christmas, when…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Advent — church season; the advent of — formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church) Advent is the season of about four weeks before Christmas, when Christians get ready to celebrate Jesus' birth and wait for his coming again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/#m1)

2) (formal) The advent of something is its arrival or beginning, as in "the advent of the internet". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Children open an advent calendar door each day, often with a chocolate. Churches light the candles of an advent wreath, one more each Sunday. In history writing, "the advent of trains changed travel". Phrases: advent calendar, advent wreath, the first Sunday of Advent, the advent of something.

### examples

- I open a door in my Advent calendar every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/#x1)
- We lit the second candle on the Advent wreath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/#x2)
- Advent is a time of waiting and getting ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/#x3)
- With the advent of mobile phones, fewer people wrote letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/#x4)
- The church is decorated in purple during Advent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/#x5)
- The Advent carol service was by candlelight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/#x6)
- Eos, the Dawn, like her brother Helios, whose advent she always announced, was also deified by the early Greeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/#x7)

### note

Capital A for the church season; small a for the formal sense. Uncountable. Related: adventure (from the same Latin root "come to"), but different meaning.

### In the corpora

- [Advent is the four weeks before Christmas, a time of waiting and getting ready, with Advent wreaths and calendars.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/6/)
- [Many churches use purple in Advent and Lent, white or gold at Christmas and Easter, and green in ordinary weeks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «advent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/advent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.