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advent | x |

As a proper noun advent

is (christianity) the first or the expected second coming of christ.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

advent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Coming; coming to; approach; arrival.
  • * Young
    • Death's dreadful advent
  • * 1853 , , "Bartleby, the Scrivener," in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin, 1968; reprinted 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0146000129, p. 3:
    • At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.
  • (religion, Christianity, always capitalized) See Advent.

    • Synonyms

    * (coming) arrival, approach, oncome, onset

    Related terms

    * Advent * advene * Adventist * Advent Sunday * adventual * Advent wreath

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----