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Webster 1913 Edition
Arrival
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
Expect his swift
arrival
. Dryden.
2.
The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course;
as, our
. arrival
at this conclusion was wholly unexpected3.
The person or thing arriving or which has arrived;
as, news brought by the last
. arrival
Another
arrival
still more important was speedily announced. Macaulay.
4.
An approach.
[Obs.]
The house has a corner
arrival
. H. Walpole.
Webster 1828 Edition
Arrival
ARRI'VAL
, n.1.
The coming to, or reaching a place, from a distance, whether by water, as in its original sense, or by land.2.
The attainment or gaining of any object, by effort, agreement, practice or study.Definition 2024
arrival
arrival
English
Noun
arrival (plural arrivals)
- The act of arriving or something that has arrived.
- The early arrival of the bride created a stir.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
- We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- 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?
- The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
- The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable.
- 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
Antonyms
Translations
act of arriving or something that has arrived
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