Advent

Ad·vent

Advent

n.
  1. The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. (Eccl.)
  2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
  3. Coming; any important arrival; approach.
    Death's dreadful advent.
    Expecting still his advent home.

Phrases & Compounds
Advent Sunday
the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).