Meaning of arrival | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
   countable, uncountable
2. to reach (a place, the end of a journey etc). They arrived home last night; The parcel arrived yesterday. aankom يَصِل пристигам chegar přijít, přijet, dorazit, dojít ankommen komme; ankomme; nå frem φτάνωllegar saabuma رسیدن saapua arriver לְהָגִיע पहुंचना stići (meg)érkezik datang, tiba, sampai koma arrivare 到着する 도착하다 atvykti ierasties tiba aankomenkomme, nå fram nadchdzić, przybywać رسیدل chegar a sosi прибывать prísť prispeti stići anlända, komma มาถึง varmak, gelmek 到達 прибувати, приїждж...
   etc
3. The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
   countable, uncountable
4. feminine singular of llegado
5. to reach. The committee failed to arrive at a decision. bereik يَصِل إلى достигам chegar dospět k gelangen zu nå til; komme frem til φτάνω, καταλήγωllegar a jõudma رسیدن به؛ دست یافتن saavuttaa parvenir à לְהַגִיע לְ पहुंचना donijeti elér mencapai komast að arrivare a ～に達する 성립되다 priimti, pasiekti sasniegt; nonākt mencapai komen tot oppnå, komme fram tilosiągnąć, dojść do رسیدل په chegar a ajunge la достигать dospieť k priti do postizati nå, komma fram till มาถึง varmak 達成, 做出 доходити, досяга...
6. The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.
   countable, uncountable
7. arribo, llegada;dead on ___ → paciente que llega sin vida, que llega muerto-a;
8. The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
   countable, uncountable
9. The act of arriving.
10. A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.
    countable, uncountable
11. One that arrives or has arrived.
12. The reaching of a goal or objective as a result of effort or a process: our ultimate arrival at a compromise.
13. the act or time of arriving
14. a person or thing that arrives or has arrived
15. the reaching of a condition or objective
16. an act of arriving; a coming: Their arrival was delayed by traffic.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“[…] the whole bar was a fierce collective roar, and he edged and smiled politely through it like a sober late arrival at a wild party.”

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