Definition of advent

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Advent (n.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

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Adventurous :: Adventurous (n.) Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song..
Paraventure :: Paraventure (adv.) Peradventure; perchance.
Attemptive :: Attemptive (a.) Disposed to attempt; adventurous.
Cowboy :: Cowboy (n.) A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States..
Emprising :: Emprising (v. t.) Full of daring; adventurous.
Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises..
Filibuster :: Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855..
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss..
Sea King :: Sea king () One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.
Condottiere :: Condottiere (n.) A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest..
Adventure :: Adventure (n.) To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture..
Misadventurous :: Misadventurous (a.) Unfortunate.
Romance :: Romance (n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance..
Adventive :: Adventive (a.) Accidental.
Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental..
Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Coming :: Coming (n.) Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train..
Daring :: Daring (a.) Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits..
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