Arrival

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Arrival \Ar*riv"al\, n. [From {Arrive}.]
     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.
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              Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes,
              Expect his swift arrival.             --Dryden.
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     2. The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in
        natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was
        wholly unexpected.
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     3. The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as,
        news brought by the last arrival.
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              Another arrival still more important was speedily
              announced.                            --Macaulay.
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     4. An approach. [Obs.]
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              The house has a corner arrival.       --H. Walpole.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  arrival
       n 1: accomplishment of an objective [syn: {reaching}]
       2: the act of arriving at a certain place; "they awaited her
          arrival"
       3: someone who arrives (or has arrived) [syn: {arriver}, {comer}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "arrival":
     advent, appearance, approach, blind landing, comer, coming,
     coming in, do, emergence, entrance, entrant, go, immigrant,
     in-migrant, incomer, intruder, issuance, landing, manifestation,
     migrant, newcomer, passenger, prosperity, settler, stack up,
     touchdown, tourist, traveller, visitant, visitor