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Date: 1000-1100
Language: Latin
Origin: adventus 'arrival', from advenire; ADVENTURE

advent

 noun
     
ad‧vent written

the advent of something

the time when something first begins to be widely used:
the advent of the computer
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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