Definitions for arrival
əˈraɪ vəlar·rival

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. arrival, reaching(noun)

   accomplishment of an objective

2. arrival(noun)

   the act of arriving at a certain place

   "they awaited her arrival"

3. arrival, arriver, comer(noun)

   someone who arrives (or has arrived)

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1. arrival(Noun)

   the act of arriving or something that has arrived

2. arrival(Noun)

   the attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Arrival(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [From Arrive.]

2. Arrival(noun)

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

   Etymology: [From Arrive.]

3. Arrival(noun)

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

   Etymology: [From Arrive.]

4. Arrival(noun)

   an approach

   Etymology: [From Arrive.]

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1. Arrival

   Arrival is the third proper studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally released in Sweden on 11 October 1976 by Polar Records. Recording sessions began in August 1975 and continued until September 1976. The album was recorded at Metronome and Glen studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Arrival was first released on CD in 1984. The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form a total of four times; first in 1997, then in 2001, 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set, and again in 2006. Upon its original 1976 release, "Fernando", released as a single earlier the same year, did not appear on Arrival, but it was included on the South African, Australian and New Zealand versions. "Fernando" remained unreleased on Arrival until the first remastered issue in 1997. The album also contains three of the group's biggest hits, "Dancing Queen", "Money, Money, Money" and "Knowing Me, Knowing You". Arrival was the best-selling album of 1977 in the United Kingdom. In April 1977, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'arrival' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2845

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'arrival' in Nouns Frequency: #1158

How to pronounce arrival?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say arrival in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of arrival in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of arrival in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of arrival in a Sentence

1. Jorge Dazre:

   If today it's already difficult to attend to the population of Rio, what will happen during the Olympics with the arrival of millions of people to watch the Games?

2. Randal Stewart:

   What we saw starting to happen shortly after her arrival was a systematic dismantling of a cohesive and productive organization. There was cohesion in the office and no one was afraid to do their jobs.

3. The White House:

   Americans' quality, affordable health care will never be safe with President Trump, everyone knows the latest Trump budget is dead on arrival in Congress.

4. Grzegorz Schetyna:

   The scale of the migration is enormous, so we can't focus - I'm talking about the whole of Europe - on allocating illegal migrants without fighting the causes (of their arrival), we have to think of how to stop the illegal migration. Otherwise (we may have) soon have 3-4 million economic refugees.

5. Pili Tobar:

   To say it's dead on arrival would be generous.

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