arrival

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  1. noun The act of arriving.
  2. noun One that arrives or has arrived.
  3. noun The reaching of a goal or objective as a result of effort or a process: our ultimate arrival at a compromise.

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  • Part of the occasion for their arrival is the publication of Jacques Roubaud's The Loop in Jeff Fort's English translation by the Dalkey Archive.
  • And the arrival was heralded with a kind of grandeur: the city's mayor, C. Ray Nagin, pronounced Gustav "the storm of the century," a declaration that seems to have had remarkable success in a region that once stared down hurricanes with a beer. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Actually, her arrival was the beginning of the end for good characters and good storytelling. —  SCI FI Wire
  • In Nizamabad, the arrival is around 7,000 quintals, he added.
  • I should note that the arrival was accompanied by a chorus of ooohs and aaahs from other Parlour patrons. —  WordPress.com News
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departure ·  presence ·  visit ·  return ·  reception ·  residence ·  attention ·  come ·  approach ·  absence ·  discovery ·  movement

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arrival:   arrivals
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Etymologies (1)

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  1. from Middle English aryvaile, arrivaile, from Anglo-French arrivaille = Provencal arribalh, arribailh, arrival: see arrive and -al.
 

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