arrival

Etymology

arrive + -al

noun

1. The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
   The early arrival of the bride created a stir.
   The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival? 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
2. The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
   He celebrated the arrival of payday with a shopping spree.
3. The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.
   The arrival of puberty can be especially challenging for transgender youth.
   a raw scraping in the back of his throat, which announced the arrival of a bad cold 1951, William Styron, chapter 6, in Lie Down in Darkness, New York: Modern Library, page 306
   Streetlamps started to flicker tentatively—yellow buds, intimating the arrival of the full glow. 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Part 11, p. 513
4. The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
   The arrival of the railway made the local tourist industry viable.
   All the admirals had grown up in sail, and many of them viewed the arrival of steam with undisguised dislike […] 1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1980, Part 3, Chapter 21, p. 411
   [T]he rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. 2013-07-20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
5. A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.
   There has been a significant growth in illegal arrivals.
   1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John Hunt, Canto 11, stanza 68, p. 137, Saloon, room, hall o’erflow beyond their brink, And long the latest of arrivals halts, ’Midst royal dukes and dames condemned to climb, And gain an inch of staircase at a time.
   The abbot and his monks were assembled in the great hall, observing with childish wonder and faith the performances of a new magician, a fresh arrival. 1889, Mark Twain, chapter 24, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York: Charles L. Webster, page 306
   a raw apple […] that looked so fresh and shining that it might even have been an early arrival of the new season’s crop 1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, published 1971, page 72