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 →

2) (formal) The advent of something is its arrival or beginning, as in "the advent of the internet". tree →

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 →
• We lit the second candle on the Advent wreath. tree →
• Advent is a time of waiting and getting ready. tree →
• With the advent of mobile phones, fewer people wrote letters. tree →
• The church is decorated in purple during Advent. tree →
• The Advent carol service was by candlelight. tree →
• Eos, the Dawn, like her brother Helios, whose advent she always announced, was also deified by the early Greeks. tree →

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.
• Many churches use purple in Advent and Lent, white or gold at Christmas and Easter, and green in ordinary weeks.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «advent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.