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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class II. Words Relating to Space |
| Section IV. Motion |
| 4. Motion with Reference to Direction |
| 292. [Terminal Motion At.] Arrival. |
| NOUN: | ARRIVAL, advent; landing; debarkation, disembarkation. RECEPTION, welcome; vin d’honneur [F.]. DESTINATION, bourn or bourne, goal; landing -place, - stage; bunder or bandar [Pers. & India]; resting place; harbor, haven, port; terminus, terminal; halting -place, - ground; home, journey’s end; anchorage (refuge) [See Refuge]; completion [See Completion]. RETURN, recursion [obs.], remigration, reëntry. MEETING, joining, rencounter, encounter, rejoining. |
| VERB: | ARRIVE; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up, - with, - to; overtake; make, fetch; come from, hail from; complete [See Completion]; join, rejoin. visit, pitch one’s tent; sit down &c. (be located) [See Location]; get to one’s journey’s end; be in at the death; come -, get- -back, - home; return; come in (ingress) [See Ingress]; make one’s appearance (appear) [See Visibility]; drop in; detrain; outspan, offsaddle [both S. Africa]. LIGHT, alight, dismount. LAND, make land, cast anchor, put in, put into; go ashore, debark, disbark [rare], disembark MEET; encounter, rencounter [rare], come in contact; come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come -, light -, pop [colloq.] -, bounce [colloq.] -, plump [colloq.] -, burst -, pitch- upon. |
| ADJECTIVE: | ARRIVING &c. v.; homeward bound, terminal. |
| ADVERB: | HERE, hither. |
| INTERJECTION: | WELCOME! hail! all hail! good-day! good-morrow! come in and rest your bonnet on a chair! [Southern U. S.], bienvenu! [F.]. |
| QUOTATION: | Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know.—Twelfth Night |
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