arrival gate
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- noun
- /əˈraɪvəl ɡeɪt/
:
puerta de llegada
- At the arrival gate, families eagerly awaited their loved ones after a long journey.
Examples
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After an extremely long taxi, we made it to our arrival gate, where there was an army of golf carts waiting for first-class passengers.
Blog text (28) -
Ramirez crosses out of the arrival gate.
Fiction book (1997) -
At the arrival gate, both sets of parents were waiting for their baby daughter.
Blog text (23) -
A large group of people carrying flowers stood at the door of the arrival gate.
Fiction book (1998) -
She explained that the girl in question would be waiting at the arrival gate wearing a red dress.
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John watches the passengers stream out of the arrivals gate.
Fiction book (2001) -
BARTLEBY sits among a row of seats by one of the arrival gates.
Fiction book (1999) -
When I arrived at the airport in Columbia, I was very surprised to see my cousin Margaret Selby Delroy waiting for me at the arrival gate.
Fiction book (2002) -
SUPER: LONDON - HEATHROW AIRPORT INT. HEATHROW TERMINAL - ARRIVAL GATE - DAY
Fiction book (1997) -
They hugged briefly at the arrival gate, laughed, started to falter over the baggage carousel, and drove straight out to his lair in the silence of small talk.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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A place in an airport where passengers board or leave a plane
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a gate for incoming passengers' is directly and compositionally derived from 'arrival' (coming to a location) + 'gate' (airport boarding/disembarking passage). This straightforward noun–noun combination follows common compounding patterns found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Arrival gate comes from the simple image of an arrival (someone coming in) and a gate (a door or opening) where people step off a plane. So it means 'the gate at an airport where passengers get off incoming flights'.