different between arrival vs semblance

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

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Translations

English

Alternative forms

• semblaunce

Etymology

From Middle English semblaunce, from Old French semblance, from semblant, present participle of sembler.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?m.bl?ns/

Noun

semblance (countable and uncountable, plural semblances)

1. likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
2. the way something looks; appearance; form

Synonyms

• (likeness): veneer

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References

Further reading

• semblance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• semblance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.