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, chapter 6, in Westminster Abbey; or, The Days of the Reformation[1], volume 1, London: John Mortimer, page 146:
- Altogether the new arrivant had the air of some desperate adventurer […]
- 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road[2], London: Jonathan Cape, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 14:
- […] the beggars, looking up with the bright faces of arrivants, turned into our compound-front.
- 1998, Howard Norman, The Museum Guard[3], New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 242:
- [He] finally gave up any hope that a bellhop would actually help an arrivant or somebody about to leave the hotel with their luggage.
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Participle[edit]
arrivant
Adjective[edit]
arrivant (feminine 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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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