arrivant

English

Etymology

From arrive +‎ -ant or French arrivant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹaɪvənt/

Noun

arrivant (plural arrivants)

1. 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

Pronunciation

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Verb

arrivant

1. present participle of arriver

Adjective

arrivant (feminine singular arrivante, masculine plural arrivants, feminine plural arrivantes)

1. arriving
2. incoming

Noun

arrivant m (plural arrivants, feminine arrivante)

1. arriver (one who arrives)

Further reading

• “arrivant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).