arrivant
English
Etymology
From arrive + -ant or French arrivant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈɹaɪvənt/
Noun
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,
- 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, p. 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
- Navratri
French
Pronunciation
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Participle
arrivant
- present participle of arriver
Adjective
arrivant (feminine arrivante, masculine plural arrivants, feminine plural arrivantes)
- arriving
- incoming
Noun
arrivant m (plural arrivants, feminine arrivante)
- arriver (one who arrives)
Further reading
- “arrivant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.