Advent Sunday

American  

noun

1. the first Sunday in Advent.

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Advent Sunday British  

noun

1. the first of the four Sundays of Advent, and the one that falls nearest to November 30

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Example Sentences

On the morning of the first Advent Sunday, Stuttgart was quiet and peaceful.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2015

They were baptized on Advent Sunday, 1848, and were the beginning of our native school.

From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette

Then there is the loss of a day every year until Advent Sunday again falls on the 27th of November and so on.

From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols

Then it is forbidden until Trinity Sunday, from whence it is unforbidden till Advent Sunday, but then it goes out, and comes not in again till the 13th of January next following.”

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by Andrews, William

He commenced to write sacred poetry in 1724, and on Advent Sunday of that year began a cycle of “Profitable Thoughts,” so he termed them, upon the Sunday and Saints' Day Gospels.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus