arrival
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
arrive/əˈrʌɪv/
▶verb
- 1 reach a destination.
- 2 be brought or delivered.
- 3 (of a particular moment) come about.
- 4 (arrive at) reach (a conclusion or decision).
- 5 informal become successful and well known.
– derivatives
arrival noun.
arrival noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘reach the shore after a voyage’): from OFr. ariver, based on L. ad- ‘to’ + ripa ‘shore’.
'arrival' also found in these Oxford entries:
aboriginal
- advent
- -al
- announce
- arrive
- at
- blow-in
- boat train
- book
- cargo cult
- celandine
- check
- clock
- DOA
- ETA
- fall
- in
- income
- influx
- ingress
- landfall
- lychgate
- marathon
- Pelasgian
- pipe
- post horn
- pre-Columbian
- sign
- terminal
- tidewaiter
- wait
- welcome
