arrival
NounUS[er-ahy-vuhl]/ɚˈaɪvəl/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)arrivals
- accomplishment of an objectiveSynonyms: reachingType of accomplishment, achievementKinds advent, attainment
- the act of arriving at a certain place“they awaited her arrival”Type of actionKinds return, entrance, appearance, docking, anchorage, landing, check-in
- someone who arrives (or has arrived)Synonyms: arrivercomerType of traveler, travellerKinds newcomer, early bird, latecomer
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Translations
Noun act of arriving
- Spanish
- llegada
- French
- arrivée
- German
- Ankunft
- Italian
- arrivo
- Portuguese
- chegada
- Turkish
- varış
- Russian
- прибы́тие pribýtije
- Arabic
- وُصُول wuṣūl
- Chinese
- 到达 dàodá
- Japanese
- 到着 tōchaku
36 more languages
- Dutch
- aankomst
- Polish
- przyjazd
- Swedish
- ankomst
- Greek
- άφιξη áfixi
- Korean
- 도착 dochak
- Indonesian
- kedatangan
- Vietnamese
- sự đến
- Hungarian
- érkezés
- Portuguese (PT)
- chegada
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 到達 dàodá
- Albanian
- arritje
- Breton
- erruadeg
- Catalan
- arribada
- Corsican
- arrivu
- Czech
- přílet
- Danish
- ankomst
- Esperanto
- alveno
- Estonian
- saabumine
- Finnish
- saapuminen
- Georgian
- ჩამოსვლა čamosvla
- Hebrew
- הַגָּעָה haga'a
- Icelandic
- koma
- Kurdish
- hatin
- Latvian
- ierašanās
- Lithuanian
- atvykimas
- Malagasy
- fahatongavana
- Norwegian
- ankomst
- Romanian
- sosire
- Scottish Gaelic
- ruighinn
- Serbo-Croatian
- dolazak
- Slovak
- príchod
- Slovenian
- prihod
- Swahili
- kuwasili
- Walloon
- arivêye
- Welsh
- dyfodiad
- Yiddish
- אָנקום onkum
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ar·riv′al (…), noun
Origin: From Arrive.
1. The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.
Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival.— John Dryden
2. The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.
3. The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival.
Another arrival still more important was speedily announced.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
4. An approach. obsolete
The house has a corner arrival.— H. Walpole.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54