Definition of Arrival

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Arrival

The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.

The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.

The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival.

An approach.

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Arrival Quotations

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.
Paul Allen

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
David Attenborough

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
Rudolf Arnheim

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
Freeman Dyson

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.
John Dyer

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
John Desmond Bernal

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
Antonia Fraser

I'm lucky, I can sleep from takeoff until we land; so I'm fresh, rested and ready to work on arrival.
Eva Herzigova

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
Fanny Kemble

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
John Hume

Arrival Translations

arrival in Afrikaans is aankoms, koms
arrival in Danish is ankomst
arrival in Dutch is bezorging, aanvoer
arrival in German is Ankunft {f}
arrival in Italian is venuta, emersione, arrivo
arrival in Latin is aduentus
arrival in Norwegian is ankomst
arrival in Portuguese is chegada
arrival in Spanish is llegada, venida
arrival in Swedish is ankomst

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