advent
 ad·vent (ădʹvĕnt')n.
1. The coming or arrival, especially of something extremely important:
the advent of the computer.
2. Advent
a. The liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning in Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and in Eastern churches in mid-November, and observed by many Christians as a season of prayer, fasting, and penitence.
b. Christianity. The coming of Jesus at the Incarnation.
c. Christianity. See Second Coming. [Middle English, the Advent season, from Old French, from Latin adventus, arrival, from past participle of advenīre, to come to : ad-, ad- + venīre, to come; See gʷā- in Indo-European Roots.]
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