advent

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
  2. noun the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
  3. noun (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for the Last Judgment

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).

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