Definition of 'arrival'
Word forms: plural arrivals
4. singular noun
5. countable noun [usually adjective NOUN]
You can refer to someone who has just arrived at a place as a new arrival.
7. countable noun [usually adjective NOUN]
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arrival in American English
(əˈraivəl)
noun
SYNONYMS 1. advent.3.
the person or thing that arrives or has arrived
First arrivals will be the first seated
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arrival
British English: arrival
/əˈraɪvl/ NOUN
Your arrival at a place is the act of arriving there.
...the day after his arrival in the country.
- American English: arrival /əˈraɪvəl/
- Arabic: وُصُول
- Brazilian Portuguese: chegada
- Chinese: 到达
- Croatian: dolazak
- Czech: příchod
- Danish: ankomst
- Dutch: aankomst
- European Spanish: llegada
- Finnish: saapuminen
- French: arrivée
- German: Ankunft
- Greek: άφιξη
- Italian: arrivo
- Japanese: 到着
- Korean: 도착
- Norwegian: ankomst
- Polish: przybycie
- European Portuguese: chegada
- Romanian: sosire
- Russian: прибытие
- Latin American Spanish: llegada
- Swedish: ankomst
- Thai: การมาถึง
- Turkish: varış
- Ukrainian: прибуття
- Vietnamese: sự đến
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