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arrival

noun
/əˈɹaɪ.vl̩/

Etymology

From Middle English arivaile, arivaille, arrival, arryvaile, arryvaylle, aryvayle, aryvaylle, from Middle French arrivaille, from arriver; equivalent to arrive + -al.

  1. derived from arrivaille
  2. inherited from arivaile

Definitions

  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

  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.

  3. The fact of beginning to occur

    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. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. A person who has arrived

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

      • There has been a significant growth in illegal arrivals.
      • 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.

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Derived

accommodation on arrival, arrival gate, arrival lounge, arrival time, dead on arrival, defective on arrival, e-arrival, estimated time of arrival, guaranteed arrival, interarrival, new arrival, prearrival, rearrival, superarrival, time difference of arrival, time of arrival, time-of-arrival technique, unarrival, visa-on-arrival

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at arrival. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at arrival. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at arrival

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA