English words for 'Relating to the Advent.'
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noun
- Advent, the period from Advent Sunday (inclusive) through the start of Epiphany.
- (informal, business, marketing) The period at the end of the year when retailers promote Christmas shopping opportunities
- Christmastide, Yuletide; the Twelve Days of Christmas, starting on Christmas Day and ending on Epiphany, January 6.
- (US, informal, retail and marketing) The winter season starting around Thanksgiving (typically Black Friday) and ending at or about New Year's Eve.
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- Initialism of Anno ante Christum, in the year before Christ.
- (military, aviation) Abbreviation of airborne aircraft carrier.
- (aviation, military) Initialism of aircraft armament change.
- Initialism of aerated autoclaved concrete.
- (aviation) Initialism of aeronautical approach chart.
- (file format) Initialism of advanced audio coding.
- (military) Initialism of anti-aircraft command.
- Initialism of area advisory committee.
- Initialism of augmentative and alternative communication.
- Initialism of affirming Anglican catholicism.
- a lightweight, precast, concrete building material invented in the mid-1920s that simultaneously provides structure, insulation, and fire- and mold-resistance.
name
- Initialism of American Atheist Center.
- Initialism of American Association of Criminology.
- Initialism of Aluminum Annodizers Council.
- (historical) Initialism of Auto Avia Contruzione, Enzo Ferrari's first company.
- Initialism of American Airlines Center.
- Initialism of American Archery Council.
- Initialism of Army Apprentices College.
- Initialism of Anglo-American Corporation.
- Initialism of Australian Association of Chiropractors.
- Initialism of Australian Apprentiship Centre.
- Initialism of Advanced Aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of All-American Canal.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Army Corps.
- Initialism of Automotive Advertisers Council.
- Initialism of American Anglican Council.
- Initialism of Alaskan Air Command.
- Initialism of Aerial Ambulance Company.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Artillery Corps.
- (military) Initialism of Anti-aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of American Academy of Criminalists.
- Initialism of American Alumni Council, now known as Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
- Initialism of Atlanta Athletic Club.
- Initialism of Aeronautical Advisory Council.
- Initialism of American Alpine Club.
- Initialism of Alameda Arts Council.
- (British English, US) Initialism of Army Air Corps; Army Air Corps.
- Initialism of Agility Association of Canada.
- Initialism of Association of American Choruses.
- Initialism of Allumnae Advisory Center.
- Initialism of Australian Agricultural Company.
- Initialism of Association of Alabama Camps.
- Initialism of Amphibian Airplanes of Canada.
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noun
- Advent, arrival, approach; onset.
- The setting about of an action; development; progress.
- (dialectal) A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
- The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
- (dialectal) A mysterious disease or ailment.
- An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
- (of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
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- Initialism of air corps.
- Initialism of aviation cadet.
- Initialism of athletic club.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of armor class.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of adenylyl cyclase.
- (prison) Initialism of administrative custody.
- (autism, psychology) singular of ACs (“autistics and cousins”).
- (US, military) Initialism of Auxiliary Collier (a naval coal transport that travels with the fleet to provide coal for coal-powered warships).
- (electricity) Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).
- (set theory) Initialism of axiom of choice.
- Initialism of access control.
- Initialism of army corps.
- (medicine) Initialism of adjuvant chemotherapy.
- (Australia) Companion of the Order of Australia.
- (electricity, informal, by extension) supply of electric energy via a public electricity grid
- Initialism of author's correction.
- (geography) Initialism of autonomous county.
- Initialism of aircraftman.
- (Anglicanism) Anglo-Catholic.
- (finance) Initialism of account current.
- (anatomy) Initialism of anterior chamber.
- (music, radio) Initialism of adult contemporary (a radio format).
- Initialism of air conditioning.
- (chemistry) Initialism of ammonium chloride.
- Initialism of area code.
- Initialism of automobile club.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of assistant commissioner, a police rank used in London's Metropolitan Police.
- (aviation) Initialism of absolute ceiling.
- an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally
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- (Christianity) Initialism of New Testament.
- Initialism of the Northwest Territories: a territory of Canada.
- Initialism of National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (of the United Kingdom).
- (computing) Ellipsis of Windows NT.
- Abbreviation of East Nusa Tenggara: a province of Indonesia.
- Initialism of New Territories (of Hong Kong).
- Initialism of the Northern Territory: a territory of Australia.
- (stock ticker symbol) Abbreviation of Nortel.
noun
- (music) Initialism of neighbor tone.
- (chemistry) Abbreviation of nanotube.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of neurotensin.
- Initialism of neurotypical.
- an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty; founded in 1895 and supported by endowment and private subscription
phrase
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- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
- something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.)
- (theology) The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings.
- The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin.
- That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.
noun
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
- A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
- A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
- (cricket) The rapid dismissal of a series of batsmen.
- The act of progressing or proceeding.
verb
noun
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an increase in cost
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- increase in price or value
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- The front of a diaper.
- (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- (architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
verb
- rise in rank or status
- come up, of celestial bodies
- rise to one's feet
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- become heartened or elated
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- get up and out of bed
- come to the surface
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- return from the dead
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise up
- increase in volume
- To develop, to come about or intensify.
- To attain a higher status.
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
- To move upwards.
- (music) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To slope upward.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
- (figurative) To be resurrected.
noun
- Initialism of saeclum post Christum (“era after Christ”).
- Initialism of special purpose carbine.
- Initialism of soy protein concentrate.
- Initialism of security in pervasive computing.
- Initialism of special purpose cartridge.
- Initialism of segregated portfolio company.
- (patent law) Initialism of supplementary protection certificate.
- Initialism of structure-property correlation.
- Initialism of serum protein concentrate.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of single pill combination.
name
- Initialism of secretariat of the Pacific Community.
- (US) Initialism of Southwest Preparatory Conference.
- (Oxford University) Initialism of St Peter's College, Oxford.
- (US) Initialism of St. Petersburg College.
- (software) Initialism of Software Productivity Consortium.
- Initialism of State Property Committee (of Mongolia)
- (US) Initialism of Storm Prediction Center (United States NOAA)
- Initialism of Supreme Political Council (of Yemen).
noun
- (Christianity) The renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ.
- Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.
- The property of a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.
- (roleplaying games, fantasy) The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.
- (theology) Spiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one
- The process by which a water softener flushes out minerals extracted from the water supply.
- the activity of spiritual or physical renewal
- (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs
- forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting
- feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input
adj
- appearing in a biblical canon
- of or relating to or required by canon law
- reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
- conforming to orthodox or recognized rules
- (music) In the form of a canon.
- Prototypical.
- (mathematics, computing) In canonical form.
- (religion) In conformity with canon law.
- According to recognised or orthodox rules.
- Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
- (fandom slang) Related to or part of the canon of a fictional universe.
- Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
- (mathematics) Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
- (religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
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- (in Greek, Aramaic and Indian contexts) A Christian, a follower of Jesus.
- A person from Nazareth.
- A member of the Church of the Nazarene.
- (historical) A member of the Jewish sect of the Nazarenes.
- an inhabitant of Nazareth
- an early name for any Christian
- a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome
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- (film) Initialism of assistant director.
- (aviation) Initialism of airworthiness directive.
- (military) Initialism of air defence or air defense.
- (Internet) Initialism of after dark.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of antidepressant.
- (uncountable, pathology) Initialism of Alzheimer's disease.
- (television) Abbreviation of audio description.
- (US, Navy) Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
noun
- Advent, the period from Advent Sunday (inclusive) through the start of Epiphany.
- (informal, business, marketing) The period at the end of the year when retailers promote Christmas shopping opportunities
- Christmastide, Yuletide; the Twelve Days of Christmas, starting on Christmas Day and ending on Epiphany, January 6.
- (US, informal, retail and marketing) The winter season starting around Thanksgiving (typically Black Friday) and ending at or about New Year's Eve.
noun
- Initialism of Anno ante Christum, in the year before Christ.
- (military, aviation) Abbreviation of airborne aircraft carrier.
- (aviation, military) Initialism of aircraft armament change.
- Initialism of aerated autoclaved concrete.
- (aviation) Initialism of aeronautical approach chart.
- (file format) Initialism of advanced audio coding.
- (military) Initialism of anti-aircraft command.
- Initialism of area advisory committee.
- Initialism of augmentative and alternative communication.
- Initialism of affirming Anglican catholicism.
- a lightweight, precast, concrete building material invented in the mid-1920s that simultaneously provides structure, insulation, and fire- and mold-resistance.
name
- Initialism of American Atheist Center.
- Initialism of American Association of Criminology.
- Initialism of Aluminum Annodizers Council.
- (historical) Initialism of Auto Avia Contruzione, Enzo Ferrari's first company.
- Initialism of American Airlines Center.
- Initialism of American Archery Council.
- Initialism of Army Apprentices College.
- Initialism of Anglo-American Corporation.
- Initialism of Australian Association of Chiropractors.
- Initialism of Australian Apprentiship Centre.
- Initialism of Advanced Aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of All-American Canal.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Army Corps.
- Initialism of Automotive Advertisers Council.
- Initialism of American Anglican Council.
- Initialism of Alaskan Air Command.
- Initialism of Aerial Ambulance Company.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Artillery Corps.
- (military) Initialism of Anti-aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of American Academy of Criminalists.
- Initialism of American Alumni Council, now known as Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
- Initialism of Atlanta Athletic Club.
- Initialism of Aeronautical Advisory Council.
- Initialism of American Alpine Club.
- Initialism of Alameda Arts Council.
- (British English, US) Initialism of Army Air Corps; Army Air Corps.
- Initialism of Agility Association of Canada.
- Initialism of Association of American Choruses.
- Initialism of Allumnae Advisory Center.
- Initialism of Australian Agricultural Company.
- Initialism of Association of Alabama Camps.
- Initialism of Amphibian Airplanes of Canada.
symbol
noun
- Advent, arrival, approach; onset.
- The setting about of an action; development; progress.
- (dialectal) A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
- The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
- (dialectal) A mysterious disease or ailment.
- An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
- (of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.
verb
noun
name
noun
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
- something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.)
- (theology) The generation of the Son and the procession of the Holy Spirit, as distinct from the origination of created beings.
- The act of flowing or proceeding (of something, quality, or feeling) from a source or origin.
- That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence.
noun
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
- A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
- A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
- (cricket) The rapid dismissal of a series of batsmen.
- The act of progressing or proceeding.
verb
noun
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an increase in cost
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- increase in price or value
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- The front of a diaper.
- (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- (architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
verb
- rise in rank or status
- come up, of celestial bodies
- rise to one's feet
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- become heartened or elated
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- get up and out of bed
- come to the surface
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- return from the dead
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise up
- increase in volume
- To develop, to come about or intensify.
- To attain a higher status.
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
- To move upwards.
- (music) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To slope upward.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
- (figurative) To be resurrected.
noun
- Initialism of saeclum post Christum (“era after Christ”).
- Initialism of special purpose carbine.
- Initialism of soy protein concentrate.
- Initialism of security in pervasive computing.
- Initialism of special purpose cartridge.
- Initialism of segregated portfolio company.
- (patent law) Initialism of supplementary protection certificate.
- Initialism of structure-property correlation.
- Initialism of serum protein concentrate.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of single pill combination.
name
- Initialism of secretariat of the Pacific Community.
- (US) Initialism of Southwest Preparatory Conference.
- (Oxford University) Initialism of St Peter's College, Oxford.
- (US) Initialism of St. Petersburg College.
- (software) Initialism of Software Productivity Consortium.
- Initialism of State Property Committee (of Mongolia)
- (US) Initialism of Storm Prediction Center (United States NOAA)
- Initialism of Supreme Political Council (of Yemen).
noun
- (Christianity) The renewal of the world at the second coming of Christ.
- Rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal; revitalisation.
- The property of a kind of circuit, much used in radio receivers, that allows an electronic signal to be amplified many times through a feedback loop.
- (roleplaying games, fantasy) The ability to rapidly heal substantial physical damage to one's body, or to spontaneously restore hit points.
- (theology) Spiritual rebirth; the change from a carnal or material life to a pious one
- The process by which a water softener flushes out minerals extracted from the water supply.
- the activity of spiritual or physical renewal
- (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs
- forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting
- feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input
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adv
adj
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- Initialism of air corps.
- Initialism of aviation cadet.
- Initialism of athletic club.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of armor class.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of adenylyl cyclase.
- (prison) Initialism of administrative custody.
- (autism, psychology) singular of ACs (“autistics and cousins”).
- (US, military) Initialism of Auxiliary Collier (a naval coal transport that travels with the fleet to provide coal for coal-powered warships).
- (electricity) Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).
- (set theory) Initialism of axiom of choice.
- Initialism of access control.
- Initialism of army corps.
- (medicine) Initialism of adjuvant chemotherapy.
- (Australia) Companion of the Order of Australia.
- (electricity, informal, by extension) supply of electric energy via a public electricity grid
- Initialism of author's correction.
- (geography) Initialism of autonomous county.
- Initialism of aircraftman.
- (Anglicanism) Anglo-Catholic.
- (finance) Initialism of account current.
- (anatomy) Initialism of anterior chamber.
- (music, radio) Initialism of adult contemporary (a radio format).
- Initialism of air conditioning.
- (chemistry) Initialism of ammonium chloride.
- Initialism of area code.
- Initialism of automobile club.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of assistant commissioner, a police rank used in London's Metropolitan Police.
- (aviation) Initialism of absolute ceiling.
- an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally
phrase
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- (film) Initialism of assistant director.
- (aviation) Initialism of airworthiness directive.
- (military) Initialism of air defence or air defense.
- (Internet) Initialism of after dark.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of antidepressant.
- (uncountable, pathology) Initialism of Alzheimer's disease.
- (television) Abbreviation of audio description.
- (US, Navy) Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
adj
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- appearing in a biblical canon
- of or relating to or required by canon law
- reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
- conforming to orthodox or recognized rules
- (music) In the form of a canon.
- Prototypical.
- (mathematics, computing) In canonical form.
- (religion) In conformity with canon law.
- According to recognised or orthodox rules.
- Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
- (fandom slang) Related to or part of the canon of a fictional universe.
- Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
- (mathematics) Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
- (religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
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adj
noun
verb
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name
noun
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- (in Greek, Aramaic and Indian contexts) A Christian, a follower of Jesus.
- A person from Nazareth.
- A member of the Church of the Nazarene.
- (historical) A member of the Jewish sect of the Nazarenes.
- an inhabitant of Nazareth
- an early name for any Christian
- a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel According to Matthew but rejected the Epistles of St. Paul and continued to follow Jewish law and celebrate Jewish holidays; they were later declared heretic by the Church of Rome