arrivé

[ar-ee-vey; Fr. a-ree-vey] Example Sentences

ar·ri·vé

[ar-ee-vey; Fr. a-ree-vey]
noun, plural ar·ri·vés [-veyz; Fr. -vey] .
a person who has swiftly gained wealth, status, success, or fame.

Origin:
1920–25; < French: literally, arrived, noun use of past participle of arriver to arrive
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Arrivé is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Example Sentences
  • Many of the rest arrive either as students or under provisions that enable family reunions.
  • It will take a couple of decades to arrive at a point when bridge operators can use such data intelligently, he predicts.
  • But when it comes to low inflation, it may be better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
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