arrivant

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English

Etymology

From arrive +‎ -ant or French arrivant.

Pronunciation

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, chapter 6, in Westminster Abbey; or, The Days of the Reformation‎, volume 1, London: John Mortimer, page 146:
      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:
      […] 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, 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.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

arrivant

  1. present participle of arriver

Adjective

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

  1. arriving
  2. incoming

Noun

arrivant m (plural arrivants, feminine arrivante)

  1. arriver (one who arrives)

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