Advent

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Advent \Ad`vent\, n. [L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf.
     F. avent. See {Advene}.]
     1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before
        Christmas.
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     {Advent Sunday} (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of
        Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of
        St. Andrew (Now. 30). --Shipley.
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     2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.
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     3. Coming; any important arrival; approach.
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              Death's dreadful advent.              --Young.
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              Expecting still his advent home.      --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  advent
       n 1: arrival that has been awaited (especially of something
            momentous); "the advent of the computer" [syn: {coming}]
       2: the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
       3: (Christian theology) the reappearance of Jesus as judge for
          the Last Judgment [syn: {Second Coming}, {Second Coming of
          Christ}, {Second Advent}, {Parousia}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "Advent":
     Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation,
     Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas,
     Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Corpus Christi, Easter,
     Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide,
     Ember days, Epiphany, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas,
     Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide,
     Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday,
     Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Palm Sunday,
     Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima,
     Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday,
     Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday,
     Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whitweek
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "advent":
     access, accession, accomplishment, achievement, advance, afflux,
     affluxion, appearance, approach, approach of time, approaching,
     appropinquation, approximation, appulse, arrival, attainment,
     coming, coming near, coming toward, flowing toward, forthcoming,
     imminence, nearing, nearness, oncoming, proximation, reaching,
     time drawing on
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  ADVENT /ad'vent/ n. The prototypical computer adventure game, first
     designed by Will Crowther on the {PDP-10} in the mid-1970s as an attempt
     at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented
     game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the
     authors of {INTERCAL}.) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal Cave
     Adventure, but the {{TOPS-10}} operating system permitted only
     six-letter filenames. See also {vadding}, {Zork}, and {Infocom}.
  
     This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in
     text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have become
     fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the way!" "I
     see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of twisty little
     passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all
     different." The `magic words' {xyzzy} and {plugh} also derive from this
     game.
  
     Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth &
     Flint Ridge cave system; it actually _has_ a `Colossal Cave' and a
     `Bedquilt' as in the game, and the `Y2' that also turns up is cavers'
     jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance.
  
     ADVENT sources are available for FTP at
     `ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z'.
     There is a Colossal Cave Adventure page
     (http://people.delphi.com/rickadams/adventure/index.html).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ADVENT
       
           /ad'vent/ The prototypical computer {Adventure} game,
          first implemented by Will Crowther for a {CDC} computer
          (probably the 6600?) as an attempt at computer-refereed
          fantasy gaming.
       
          ADVENT was ported to the {PDP-10}, and expanded to the
          350-point {Classic} puzzle-oriented version, by Don Woods of
          the {Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory} (SAIL).  The
          game is now better known as Adventure, but the {TOPS-10}
          {operating system} permitted only six-letter filenames.  All
          the versions since are based on the SAIL port.
       
          David Long of the {University of Chicago} Graduate School of
          Business Computing Facility (which had two of the four
          {DEC20}s on campus in the late 1970s and early 1980s) was
          responsible for expanding the cave in a number of ways, and
          pushing the point count up to 500, then 501 points.  Most of
          his work was in the data files, but he made some changes to
          the {parser} as well.
       
          This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style now expected
          in text adventure games, and popularised several tag lines
          that have become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green
          fierce snake bars the way!"  "I see no X here" (for some noun
          X).  "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
          "You are in a little maze of twisty passages, all different."
          The "magic words" {xyzzy} and {plugh} also derive from this
          game.
       
          Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the
          Mammoth & Flint Ridge cave system; it actually *has* a
          "Colossal Cave" and a "Bedquilt" as in the game, and the "Y2"
          that also turns up is cavers' jargon for a map reference to a
          secondary entrance.
       
          See also {vadding}.
       
          [Was the original written in Fortran?]
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1996-04-01)
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Advent, WV
    Zip code(s): 25231