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

advent \ad`vent\, n. l. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf.
   f. avent. see advene.
   1. eccl. the period including the four sundays before
      christmas.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   2. the first or the expected second coming of christ.
      1913 webster

   3. coming; any important arrival; approach.
      1913 webster

            death's dreadful advent.              --young.
      1913 webster

            expecting still his advent home.      --tennyson.
      1913 webster
see also:
advene advent sunday 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
coming second coming second coming of christ second advent parousia 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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

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.


see also:
pdp-10 intercal tops-10 vadding zork infocom 
xyzzy plugh 

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

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
        dec20s 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
     
     
see also:
adventure cdc pdp-10 classic stanford artificial intelligence laboratory tops-10 
operating system university of chicago dec20 parser xyzzy 
plugh vadding jargon file 

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

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