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Advent wreath en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. A usually evergreen wreath adorned with four (or sometimes five) candles, the first of which is lit on Advent Sunday, followed by the lighting of an additional candle on each subsequent Sunday.
   • Local custom gives us an “Advent Tree” or “Advent Wreath”: the trees are diminutive Christmas trees, which bear one candle for each Sunday in Advent; the wreaths are wooden rings with as many holes as there are days before Christmas Eve, decorated with fir green, and gay ribbons, and hung up over the dining-table, one candle being added every night till the circle is complete. 1929 December 28, “Correspondence: A Letter from Oberammergau. [To the Editor of the Spectator.]”, in The Spectator, volume 143, number 5296, page 972:

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Relateds

Advent candle · Advent calendar

Synonyms

Advent crown

Translations (8)

it corona dell'Avvento (usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles) · pl wieniec adwentowy (usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles) · pt coroa do Advento (usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles) · de Adventskranz (usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles) · sv adventskrans (usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles) · fr couronne de l’Avent (usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles) · nl adventskrans (usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles) · hu adventi koszorú (usually evergreen wreath adorned with four candles)