arrival
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English arivaile, arivaille, arrival, arryvaile, arryvaylle, aryvayle, aryvaylle, from Middle French arrivaille, from arriver; equivalent to arrive + -al.
Base: arrive
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: arrivals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The early arrival of the bride created a stir.
And wander we to see thy honest son,
Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.
the unavoidable irregularity in the arrivals of coal ships
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
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?
gloss: The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He celebrated the arrival of payday with a shopping spree.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The arrival of puberty can be especially challenging for transgender youth.
a raw scraping in the back of his throat, which announced the arrival of a bad cold
Streetlamps started to flicker tentatively—yellow buds, intimating the arrival of the full glow.
gloss: The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable.
All the admirals had grown up in sail, and many of them viewed the arrival of steam with undisguised dislike […]
[T]he rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue.
gloss: A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
a raw apple […] that looked so fresh and shining that it might even have been an early arrival of the new season’s crop
[…] 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.
Antonyms: departure
non-arrival
nonarrival
Derived words: accommodation on arrival
arrival gate
arrival lounge
arrival time
dead on arrival
defective on arrival
e-arrival
estimated time of arrival
guaranteed arrival
interarrival
new arrival
prearrival
rearrival
superarrival
time difference of arrival
time of arrival
time-of-arrival technique
unarrival
visa-on-arrival
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