arrivant
/əˈɹaɪvənt/
arrivant noun: a person who is arriving or has just arrived.
Noun
arrivant (plural arrivants)
- A person who is arriving or has just arrived.
- The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy by Kamau Brathwaite (1973)
- Altogether the new arrivant had the air of some desperate adventurer […]1854, Emma Robinson, chapter 6, in Westminster Abbey; or, The Days of the Reformation, volume 1, London: John Mortimer, page 146
- Synonyms:
- arrival
Examples of arrivant in a sentence
- […] the beggars, looking up with the bright faces of arrivants, turned into our compound-front.1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, London: Jonathan Cape, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 14:
- [He] finally gave up any hope that a bellhop would actually help an arrivant or somebody about to leave the hotel with their luggage.1998, Howard Norman, The Museum Guard, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 242:
Synonyms of arrivant
Forms of arrivant
| plural | arrivants |
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Origin of arrivant
From arrive + -ant or French arrivant.
Questions about arrivant
- What does arrivant mean?
- Arrivant means a person who is arriving or has just arrived.
- How do you use arrivant in a sentence?
- […] the beggars, looking up with the bright faces of arrivants, turned into our compound-front.
- What part of speech is arrivant?
- Arrivant is a noun.
- How do you pronounce arrivant?
- Arrivant is pronounced /əˈɹaɪvənt/.
- What is the plural of arrivant?
- The plural of arrivant is arrivants.
Words near arrivant in the dictionary
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