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 Definitions of Advent  [ˈæd vɛnt]  

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Definition of 'Advent' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) advent
an arrival; a start or commencement:
the advent of the holiday season.

2.  advent
(usu. cap.) the coming of Christ into the world.

3.  advent
(cap.) the penitential period beginning four Sundays before Christmas, commemorating this.

4.  advent
(usu. cap.)

Etymology:  (1125–75; ME < L adventus arrival, approach =adven(īre) to arrive, reach (

Definition of 'Advent' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) advent, coming
arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
"the advent of the computer"

2. (noun) Advent
the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas

3. (noun) Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Advent, Parousia
(Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment


Definition of 'Advent' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Advent
the period including the four Sundays before Christmas

2. (noun) Advent
the first or the expected second coming of Christ

3. (noun) Advent
coming; any important arrival; approach


Definitions of 'Advent' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  Advent
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 in uppercase. 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. You can also play it as a Java applet. There is a good page of resources at the Colossal Cave Adventure Page.


Translation of 'Advent' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: coming or arrival
the advent of space travel.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: begin Arabic flag Arabic: حُلُول، وُرُود، قُدُوم Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: идване
Brazilian flag Brazilian: chegada Czech flag Czech: příchod, nástup German flag German: das Kommen
Danish flag Danish: komme; fremkomst; ankomst Greek flag Greek: έλευση Spanish flag Spanish: advenimiento, llegada
Estonian flag Estonian: tulek Farsi flag Farsi: پیدایش Finnish flag Finnish: alku
French flag French: avènement Hebrew flag Hebrew: הוֹפָעָה, כְּנִיסָה Hindi flag Hindi: आगमन
Croatian flag Croatian: dolazak Hungarian flag Hungarian: eljövetel Indonesian flag Indonesian: kedatangan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: (til)koma Italian flag Italian: avvento, venuta Japanese flag Japanese: 到来
Korean flag Korean: 도래 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: atėjimas, atvykimas Latvian flag Latvian: ierašanās; atnākšana
Malay flag Malay: penciptaan Dutch flag Dutch: komst Norwegian flag Norwegian: ankomst, inntog; advent
Polish flag Polish: nastanie Persian flag Persian: پیدایش Pashto flag Pashto: پیدايښت
Portuguese flag Portuguese: chegada Romanian flag Romanian: sosire Russian flag Russian: появление
Slovak flag Slovak: príchod Slovenian flag Slovenian: prihod Serbian flag Serbian: dolazak
Swedish flag Swedish: ankomst Thai flag Thai: การมาถึง Turkish flag Turkish: geliş, ortaya çıkış
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 到來 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: прихід, прибуття Urdu flag Urdu: ایجاد ، آغاز
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự đến Chinese flag Chinese: 到来

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