arrival

noun

1. 1

   The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).

   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.

2. 2

   The fact of reaching a particular point in time.

   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.

3. 3

   The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.

   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.

4. 4

   The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.

   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.

5. 5

   A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.

   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

Forms

plural

arrivals