arrivant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From arrive + -ant or French arrivant
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
arrivant (plural arrivants)
- A person who is arriving or has just arrived.
- Synonym: arrival
- The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy by Kamau Brathwaite (1973)
- 1854, Emma Robinson, Westminster Abbey; or, The Days of the Reformation, London: John Mortimer, Volume 1, Chapter 6, p. 146,[1]
- Altogether the new arrivant had the air of some desperate adventurer […]
- 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, London: Jonathan Cape, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 14,[2]
- […] the beggars, looking up with the bright faces of arrivants, turned into our compound-front.
- 1998, Howard Norman, The Museum Guard, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 242,[3]
- [He] finally gave up any hope that a bellhop would actually help an arrivant or somebody about to leave the hotel with their luggage.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Verb[edit]
arrivant
Adjective[edit]
arrivant (feminine singular arrivante, masculine plural arrivants, feminine plural arrivantes)
Noun[edit]
arrivant m (plural arrivants, feminine arrivante)
- arriver (one who arrives)
Further reading[edit]
- “arrivant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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