Advent is a season in the Christian calendar preceding Christmas.

Advent may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Computer games

• Colossal Cave Adventure or ADVENT, a 1970s computer game

• A faction in the game Sins of a Solar Empire

• ADVENT, the faction opposing the player in XCOM 2

Music

• The Advent, a British electronic music band

• Advent (band), an American hardcore punk band

• "Advent", a song by Opeth from the album Morningrise

Other arts and entertainment

• Advent (film), a 2016 film by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi

• Advent Trilogy, a series of fantasy novels by James Treadwell

• "Advent", a Series A episode of the television series QI (2003)

Business

• Advent Computers, a computer brand produced by British company DSG International

• Advent Corporation, a former company founded by Henry Kloss that made speakers and home audio equipment

• Advent Film Group, a Christian film production and distribution company

• Advent International, a global buyout firm

• SS&C Advent, formerly named Advent Software, a financial software company based in San Francisco

• Advent (publisher), a publisher of science fiction books

• Advent (Voxx International), a brand of speakers, hi-fi equipment and computer peripherals

Places

• Advent, Cornwall, United Kingdom, a civil parish

• Advent, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community

• Advent Historic District, Battle Creek, Michigan, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places

Other uses

• , a World War II minesweeper

• Adaptive Versatile Engine Technology, ADVENT, an aircraft engine development program run by the US Air Force

• Advent Bangun (1952–2018), Indonesian actor and martial arts artist

• The Advent (magazine), a magazine published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram

See also

• Advent City, an abandoned coal mining settlement on the island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard, Norway

• Adventism, a branch of Protestant Christianity