ARRIVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arrival mean? 

• ARRIVAL (noun)
  The noun ARRIVAL has 3 senses:

1. accomplishment of an objective

2. the act of arriving at a certain place

3. someone who arrives (or has arrived)

  Familiarity information: ARRIVAL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARRIVAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accomplishment of an objective

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

arrival; reaching

Hypernyms ("arrival" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arrival"):

attainment (arrival at a new stage)

advent; coming (arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of arriving at a certain place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

they awaited her arrival

Hypernyms ("arrival" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arrival"):

entering; entrance; entry; incoming; ingress (the act of entering)

appearance (the act of appearing in public view)

homecoming; return (a coming to or returning home)

anchorage (the act of anchoring)

dockage; docking; moorage; tying up (the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes)

landing (the act of coming to land after a voyage)

landing (the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface))

check-in (the act of reporting your presence (as at an airport or a hotel))

Derivation:

arrive (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who arrives (or has arrived)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

arrival; arriver; comer

Hypernyms ("arrival" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arrival"):

early bird (a person who arrives early before others do)

latecomer (someone who arrives late)

newcomer (a recent arrival)

 Context examples 

Whatever might have been felt before her arrival, her eager declarations immediately made every look and sentence as friendly as she could desire.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

They had been all solitary, helpless, and forlorn alike; and now the arrival of the others only established her superiority in wretchedness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We found that the news of the arrival of the packet—for her illness dated from that time—had such an effect upon her as to bring on brain fever.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You have heard of me, I see. I will represent the official police until their arrival. Here, you!” he shouted to a frightened groom, who had appeared at the edge of the glade.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You seem to have come through hard times together, but now with the arrival of Jupiter, you are turning the corner.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

They had been meeting almost every day since his arrival.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

By all these advantages I made so great a progress, that, in five months from my arrival I understood whatever was spoken, and could express myself tolerably well.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When Agnes wrote to tell me of her safe arrival, I was as miserable as when I saw her going away.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the White Mouse check.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She must be taken to their house; all must go to their house; and await the surgeon's arrival there.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)