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arrival en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • ə-rīv'l
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  • /əˈɹaɪ.vl̩/

Etymology

From Middle English arivaile, arivaille, arrival, arryvaile, arryvaylle, aryvayle, aryvaylle, from Middle French arrivaille, from arriver. By surface analysis, arrive + -al.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
    • And wander we to see thy honest son, Who will of thy arrival be full joyous. c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
    • We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
    • The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival? 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
    • The early arrival of the bride created a stir.
    • the unavoidable irregularity in the arrivals of coal ships 1776 March 9, Adam Smith, chapter 10, in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, book, pages 127-128:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
    • He celebrated the arrival of payday with a shopping spree.
    • It was a place […] where to count on the arrival of tomorrow was an indulgence, and every service in the house, from the milkman to the electricity, was paid for on a strictly daily basis so as not to spend money on utilities or goods that would be wasted should God turn up in all his holy vengeance the very next day. 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 339:
    • O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial’s point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour. c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
    • I now fell into a regular routine of apprenticeship-life, which was varied […] by no more remarkable circumstance than the arrival of my birthday and my paying another visit to Miss Havisham. 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XVII, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 266:
  3. (countable, uncountable) The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.
    • a raw scraping in the back of his throat, which announced the arrival of a bad cold 1951, William Styron, chapter 6, in Lie Down in Darkness, New York: Modern Library, page 306:
    • The arrival of puberty can be especially challenging for transgender youth.
    • Streetlamps started to flicker tentatively—yellow buds, intimating the arrival of the full glow. 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Part 11, p. 513:
  4. (countable, uncountable) The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
    • The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable.
    • [T]he rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
    • All the admirals had grown up in sail, and many of them viewed the arrival of steam with undisguised dislike […] 1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, Part 3, Chapter 21, p. 411:
  5. (countable, uncountable) A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.
    • […] the whole bar was a fierce collective roar, and he edged and smiled politely through it like a sober late arrival at a wild party. 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 14, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 369:
    • a raw apple […] that looked so fresh and shining that it might even have been an early arrival of the new season’s crop 1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, published 1971, page 72:
    • There has been a significant growth in illegal arrivals.
    • 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John Hunt, Canto 11, stanza 68, p. 137, Saloon, room, hall o’erflow beyond their brink, And long the latest of arrivals halts, ’Midst royal dukes and dames condemned to climb, And gain an inch of staircase at a time.
    • The abbot and his monks were assembled in the great hall, observing with childish wonder and faith the performances of a new magician, a fresh arrival. 1889, Mark Twain, chapter 24, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York: Charles L. Webster, page 306:

Forms

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Antonyms

nonarrival · departure · non-arrival

Deriveds

arrival lounge · defective on arrival · arrival time · visa-on-arrival · dead on arrival · prearrival · new arrival · arrival gate · superarrival · e-arrival · interarrival · unarrival · time of arrival · time-of-arrival technique · guaranteed arrival · accommodation on arrival · rearrival · time difference of arrival · estimated time of arrival

Synonyms

introduction · incoming · onset · advent · arrivant · arriver

Translations (171)

cmn 抵達 /抵达 (act of arriving) · mk пристигнување (act of arriving) · fi saapuja (person who has arrived) · oc arribada (act of arriving) · uk прибуття́ (act of arriving) · uk приї́зд (act of arriving) · be прые́зд (act of arriving) · twf kwònéne (act of arriving) · tyv келгени (act of arriving) · cmn 入境者 (person who has arrived) · uk прихі́д (act of arriving) · my ဆိုက်ရောက် (act of arriving) · hy ժամանում (act of arriving) · be прылёт (act of arriving) · uk прилі́т (act of arriving) · ro sosire (act of arriving) · bg присти́гане (act of arriving) · hi आगमन (act of arriving) · si පැමිණීම් (act of arriving) · es arribada (act of arriving) · tyv ужуп келери (act of arriving) · fi saapuminen (person who has arrived) · nb ankomst (act of arriving) · be прыбыцьцё (act of arriving) · tl dating (act of arriving) · cmn 問世 /问世 (attainment of an objective) · es arribaje (act of arriving) · pl przybycie (act of arriving) · ro ajungere (act of arriving) · tg омадан (act of arriving) · sa आगमन (act of arriving) · tyv чедип келгени (act of arriving) · fi saapuminen (act of arriving) · id kedatangan (act of arriving) · uz kelish (act of arriving) · bho आगमन (act of arriving) · fr arrivant (person who has arrived) · es recalada (act of arriving) · tyv ужуп келгени (act of arriving) · ur آمَد (act of arriving) · pl przylot (act of arriving) · tyv чедип келери (act of arriving) · pl przybywająca (person who has arrived) · cs příchod (act of arriving) · ja 到達 (act of arriving) · got 𐌵𐌿𐌼𐍃 (act of arriving) · sc arribbu (act of arriving) · ko 도달 (act of arriving) · la adventum (act of arriving) · ru прие́зд (act of arriving) · de Ankunft (act of arriving) · cmn 到達 /到达 (act of arriving) · tr geliş (act of arriving) · da ankomst (act of arriving) · ar وِفَادَة (act of arriving) · lv atbraukšana (act of arriving) · pl przyjście (act of arriving) · mi taetaenga (act of arriving) · pt vinda (act of arriving) · ar وُصُول (act of arriving) · lt gimimas (act of arriving) · alt келери (act of arriving) · lv atnākšana (act of arriving) · uz yetib kelish (act of arriving) · az gəliş (act of arriving) · ka ჩამოსვლა (act of arriving) · izh tulo (act of arriving) · gl chegada (act of arriving) · af aankoms (act of arriving) · ms kedatangan (act of arriving) · fr arrivée (act of arriving) · my ရောက်လာခြင်း (act of arriving) · pl przybywający (person who has arrived) · kmr gihiştin (act of arriving) · tg вуруд (act of arriving) · kmr hatin (act of arriving) · fr arrivante (person who has arrived) · ru прихо́д (act of arriving) · te ఆగమనము (act of arriving) · tg омад (act of arriving) · it arrivo (act of arriving) · tr varış (act of arriving) · sv ankomst (act of arriving) · ko 도착 (act of arriving) · ja 到着 (act of arriving) · sah кэлии (act of arriving) · pl przybysz (person who has arrived) · ro venire (act of arriving) · cy dyfodiad (act of arriving) · arz وصول (act of arriving) · ka ჩამოფრენა (act of arriving) · nl aankomst (act of arriving) · kk келу (act of arriving) · izh tulekki (act of arriving) · ky келүү (act of arriving) · nl komst (act of arriving) · ug كېلىش (act of arriving) · mi taenga (act of arriving) · es alleganza (act of arriving) · is koma (act of arriving) · cs příjezd (act of arriving) · cmn 到來 /到来 (attainment of an objective) · sl prihod (act of arriving) · sw ujaji (act of arriving) · grc ἔλευσις (act of arriving) · ga teacht (act of arriving) · th การมาถึง (act of arriving) · sk príjazd (act of arriving) · cs přílet (act of arriving) · alt једип келери (act of arriving) · lo ຄະມະນາການ (act of arriving) · la adventus (act of arriving) · nn framkome (act of arriving) · ru прилёт (act of arriving) · pl przypłynięcie (act of arriving) · sk príchod (act of arriving) · nn tilkomst (act of arriving) · km ដំណល់ (act of arriving) · de Ankommen (act of arriving) · grc ἄφιξις (act of arriving) · tyv келири (act of arriving) · ca arribada (act of arriving) · bn আগমন (act of arriving) · el άφιξη (act of arriving) · mnc ᠵᡳᡩᡝᡵᡝᠩᡤᡝ (act of arriving) · lv pienākšana (act of arriving) · mn ᠢᠷᠡᠬᠦ ᠨᠢ (act of arriving) · la perventio (act of arriving) · hy գալուստ (act of arriving) · bua ерэлгэ (act of arriving) · ota ادراك (act of arriving) · nn framkomst (act of arriving) · eo alveno (act of arriving) · sk prílet (act of arriving) · mn ирсэн нь (act of arriving) · fa-ira وُصول (act of arriving) · mnc ᠵᡳᡥᡝᠩᡤᡝ (act of arriving) · pl przybycie (the fact of reaching a particular point in time) · gl vida (act of arriving) · mn ᠢᠷᠡᠯᠲᠡ (act of arriving) · et saabumine (act of arriving) · cmn 到來 /到来 (act of arriving) · mn ᠢᠷᠡᠭᠰᠡᠨ ᠨᠢ (act of arriving) · sq arritje (act of arriving) · hi आमद (act of arriving) · pl nadejście (the fact of beginning to occur) · mi haramaitanga (act of arriving) · pl przyjazd (act of arriving) · fi saapuminen (attainment of an objective) · pl przybyszka (person who has arrived) · tr ulaşma (act of arriving) · be прыбыццё (act of arriving) · mn ирэх нь (act of arriving) · tk geliş (act of arriving) · pdt Aunkunft (act of arriving) · sh dòlazak (act of arriving) · de Eintreffen (act of arriving) · fa-ira وُرود (act of arriving) · sh до̀лазак (act of arriving) · pt chegada (act of arriving) · alt учуп келери (act of arriving) · ru прибы́тие (act of arriving) · vi sự đến (act of arriving) · ms ketibaan (act of arriving) · he הַגָּעָה (act of arriving) · hu érkezés (act of arriving) · mn ирэлт (act of arriving) · es arribo (act of arriving) · es llegada (act of arriving) · be прыхо́д (act of arriving) · pl nadejście (attainment of an objective)