arrival

Examples

• All

• It's been a long-awaited arrival, but we got it.

• One question, for example, prompts students to examine what arrival in Vietnam was like for the soldiers.

  Academic text (2003)

• Enjoy the journey and give everything you have upon arrival to live your dream.

• Dave, John, your arrival here is a new dawn.

  John Dies at the End (2013)

• I throw a party there every year to celebrate its arrival.

  Anna (2019)

• I'm sure I need hardly point out that your arrival was something of a surprise.

  The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

• Although he had been gone less than a week, there was an awkwardness to his arrival.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Augustine's face filled her with excitement, love, and a sense of arrival and home.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Citizens gather in a city square, awaiting the prophesied arrival of a conqueror.

  Academic text (2016)

• According to FALGBT head Mara Rachid, "The arrival of marriage equality in Spain was a momentous occasion for us in Argentina."

  Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

S

success

vsarrival

∞ 1.0

Getting what you want after working hard

focuses more on the awaited moment after effort rather than outcome

A

achievement

vsarrival

344 2.3

A success you reach after working hard

stresses the long wait and anticipation before that completion

A

accomplishment

vsarrival

184 3.4

A successful task or goal that you finish

highlights prior expectation and the journey before the finish

F

fruition

vsarrival

32 7.0

The successful end of a plan or project

centres more on the anticipated moment of achieving the plan

A

attainment

vsarrival

9 4.7

Reaching a goal or level through effort

adds the sense of long effort and eager expectation beforehand

C

consummation

vsarrival

• Formal

3 7.6

The act of finishing something so it is complete

emphasizes the hoped-for moment and emotional build up before completion

R

reaching

vsarrival

3.1

The act of getting a goal you worked hard for

stresses the long effort and expectation that precede that act

Antonyms

F

failure

557 1.3

Not reaching what was planned or expected

Compounds

T

time of arrival

4 1.6

Expected time when a vehicle or person arrives at a place

A

arrival time

3 1.5

A scheduled time when a vehicle like a plane or train arrives at a place

A

arrival gate

1 1.6

A gate at an airport where people get off arriving flights

A

arrival of autumn

2.0

The time when autumn begins

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology