arrival

Roget category 292

2. Words relating to space
› 2.4. Motion
›› 2.4.4. Motion with reference to direction

#292. [Terminal motion at.] Arrival

noun

arrival, advent — landing — debarkation, disembarkation — reception, welcome, vin d'honneur [Fr.].
home, goal, goalpost — landing place, landing stage — bunder^† — resting place — destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport — terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal — journey's end — anchorage etc. (refuge) 666.
return, remigration^† — meeting — rencounter^†, encounter.
completion etc. 729.
recursion [Comp.].

verb

arrive — get to, come to — come — reach, attain — come up with, come up to — overtake, make, fetch — complete etc. 729 — join, rejoin.
light, alight, dismount — land, go ashore — debark, disembark — put in, put into — visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent — sit down etc. (be located) 184 — get to one's journey's end — make the land — be in at the death — come back, get back, come home, get home — return — come in etc. (ingress) 294 — make one's appearance etc. (appear) 446 — drop in — detrain, deplane — outspan — de-orbit.
come to hand — come at, come across — hit — come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon — meet — encounter, rencounter^† — come in contact.

adjective

arriving etc. v. — homeward bound.

adverb

here, hither.

interjection

welcome!, hail!, all Hail!, good-day, good morrow!,

phrase

any port in a storm.

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