advent
noun
[ ˈadv(ə)nt ]
• the arrival of a notable person or thing.
• "the advent of television"
Similar:
arrival,
appearance,
emergence,
materialization,
surfacing,
occurrence,
dawn,
origin,
birth,
rise,
development,
approach,
coming,
looming,
nearing,
advance,
• the first season of the Church year, leading up to Christmas and including the four preceding Sundays.
Origin:
Old English, from Latin adventus ‘arrival’, from advenire, from ad- ‘to’ + venire ‘come’.
