different between arrival vs mien

English

Etymology

arrive +? -al

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-r?v'?l, IPA^(key): /???a?.v?l/

Noun

arrival (countable and uncountable, plural arrivals)

1. The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 5,^[1]

     And wander we to see thy honest son,

     Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.

   • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 10, pp. 127-128,^[2]

     the unavoidable irregularity in the arrivals of coal ships
2. The fact of reaching a particular point in time.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act V, Scene 2,^[3]

     O gentlemen, the time of life is short!

     To spend that shortness basely were too long,

     If life did ride upon a dial’s point,

     Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 17, p. 266,^[4]

     I now fell into a regular routine of apprenticeship-life, which was varied […] by no more remarkable circumstance than the arrival of my birthday and my paying another visit to Miss Havisham.

   • 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, New York: Vintage, Chapter 15, p. 327,^[5]

     It was a place […] where to count on the arrival of tomorrow was an indulgence, and every service in the house, from the milkman to the electricity, was paid for on a strictly daily basis so as not to spend money on utilities or goods that would be wasted should God turn up in all his holy vengeance the very next day.

3. The fact of beginning to occur; the initial phase of something.

   Synonym: onset

   • 1951, William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, New York: Modern Library, Chapter 6, p. 306,^[6]

     a raw scraping in the back of his throat, which announced the arrival of a bad cold

   • 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Part 11, p. 513,^[7]

     Streetlamps started to flicker tentatively—yellow buds, intimating the arrival of the full glow.

4. The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.

   Synonyms: advent, introduction

   • 1973, Jan Morris, Heaven’s Command, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, Part 3, Chapter 21, p. 411,^[8]

     All the admirals had grown up in sail, and many of them viewed the arrival of steam with undisguised dislike […]
5. A person who has arrived; a thing that has arrived.

   Synonyms: arrivant, arriver

   • 1823, Lord Byron, Don Juan, London: John Hunt, Canto 11, stanza 68, p. 137,^[9]

     Saloon, room, hall o’erflow beyond their brink,

     And long the latest of arrivals halts,

     ’Midst royal dukes and dames condemned to climb,

     And gain an inch of staircase at a time.

   • 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York: Charles L. Webster, Chapter 24, p. 306,^[10]

     The abbot and his monks were assembled in the great hall, observing with childish wonder and faith the performances of a new magician, a fresh arrival.

   • 1970, J. G. Farrell, Troubles, New York: Knopf, 1971, p. 72,^[11]

     a raw apple […] that looked so fresh and shining that it might even have been an early arrival of the new season’s crop

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, Chapter 14, p. 369,^[12]

     […] the whole bar was a fierce collective roar, and he edged and smiled politely through it like a sober late arrival at a wild party.

Antonyms

• departure
• non-arrival, nonarrival

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

From French mine (whence also Danish mine and German Miene), appearance, perhaps from Breton min (“face of an animal”), or from Latin minio (“to redden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Homophone: mean

Noun

mien (countable and uncountable, plural miens)

1. (countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
   • 1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, p. 111:

     Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.

   • 2015, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015

     Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”

2. (countable) A specific facial expression.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Emin, Mine, mine

French

Etymology

From Middle French mien, from Old French meon, from Latin meum, the neuter of meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mj??/

Adjective

mien (feminine singular mienne, masculine plural miens, feminine plural miennes)

1. (archaic) my

Derived terms

• le mien (“mine”)

See also

• mon, ma, mes

Further reading

• “mien” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• mine, miné

Old French

Etymology

Latin meum.

Adjective

mien

1. (stressed) my; mine

Usage notes

• chiefly used after an article (un, le, etc.) and before a noun. The noun may be omitted if clear from the context

Descendants

• French: mien

Pitcairn-Norfolk

Etymology

From English main.

Adjective

mien

1. main

Plautdietsch

Pronoun

mien

1. my

See also

• dien (your, thy)
• sien (his)
• mie (me)
• ons (our)
• onsa (us)

Further reading

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/

Determiner

mien

1. feminine of min
2. neuter of min
3. plural of min

References

• “mien” in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi??n/

Noun

mien

1. genitive plural of mena

Noun

mien

1. genitive plural of meno

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

mien f

1. carrot

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gem?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gamain?, from Proto-Germanic *gamainiz, from Proto-Indo-European *?om-moynis. Cognate with German gemein, English mean, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gamains) and Latin comm?nis.

Adjective

mien

1. common, communal
2. common, everyday
3. general

Inflection

Derived terms

• mienskip

Further reading

• “mien”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011