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The 24-day countdown that turns patience into a daily chocolate-sized transaction.
means The arrival or coming of something notable — originally the season leading up to Christmas, now also any big anticipated debut (the advent of the internet, say).
from From Latin adventus, 'a coming or arrival,' built from ad- ('to') plus venire ('to come') — the same venire that gives us 'convene' and 'intervene.' Church Latin claimed it first, for the arrival of Christ, and the word stayed devotional for centuries before everyday English borrowed it to mean the arrival of anything much-anticipated, from electricity to smartphones.
- origin
- Latin adventus, meaning arrival, not candy
- liturgical start
- Begins the Christian church year, not January
- calendar invention
- Germans started it in the 1800s with chalk marks
- color code
- Purple symbolizes waiting, not Christmas itself