|  Advent 
 
 1. the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
 • Hypernyms:
 season
 • Part Holonyms:
 church calendar, ecclesiastical calendar
 • Part Meronyms:
 Advent Sunday
 2. (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment
 • Syn:
 Second Coming, Second Coming of Christ, Second Advent, Parousia
 • Topics:
 Christian theology
 • Instance Hypernyms:
 manifestation
 
 
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