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arrivant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˈɹaɪvənt/

Etymology

From arrive + -ant or French arrivant.

Meanings

1. A person who is arriving or has just arrived.
   • […] the beggars, looking up with the bright faces of arrivants, turned into our compound-front. 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, London: Jonathan Cape, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 14:
   • Altogether the new arrivant had the air of some desperate adventurer […] 1854, Emma Robinson, chapter 6, in Westminster Abbey; or, The Days of the Reformation, volume 1, London: John Mortimer, page 146:
   • The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy by Kamau Brathwaite (1973)
   • [He] finally gave up any hope that a bellhop would actually help an arrivant or somebody about to leave the hotel with their luggage. 1998, Howard Norman, The Museum Guard, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 242:

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Synonyms

arrival