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UK
/ˈædvɛnt/
]
[ US /ˈædˌvɛnt/ ]
[ US /ˈædˌvɛnt/ ]
NOUN
-
arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
the advent of the computer
How To Use advent In A Sentence
- The album is a mix of standards, Brazilian music and a couple of new songs, and it's some of the jazziest, most adventurous music either artist has ever recorded. Tony Sachs: An Interview with Herb Alpert & Lani Hall
- Poor Sulkorig is dead by misadventure, his head broken by the hoof of the Lord Constable's horse. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- It likewise furthered the career of Mary Shelley as "The Author of Frankenstein," the rubric under which she continued her anonymous publication with a second novel immersed in medieval Italian history, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823). Biography
- They spent their honeymoon adventurously cruising on a motorcycle, Nona riding comfortably in the side-car. Archive 2009-01-01
- If the adventurers try to reach location 14 they will have to pass scores of biting faces and clutching hands.
- I'm not sure what Laurie from Manly Dorm might be referring to as hate mongering (although I see that talking about secession is divisive), but I'd like to point out it's not hateful to say the Bush administration is antidemocratic, plutocratic and militarily adventuristic. American Coastopia!
- The advent of specific drugs joined with a more research-based, reductionist brand of medical diagnosis.
- The movie is a potent brew of adventure, sex and comedy.
- Ever since his adventure in the mountains, he has been dining off the story.
- Until the advent of synthetic dyes, woad was cultivated in great plantations that were for a time a mainstay in some colonial economies. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD