arrivant

plural arrivants

1. A person who is arriving or has just arrived.

   The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy by Kamau Brathwaite (1973)

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   Altogether the new arrivant had the air of some desperate adventurer […]

   1854, Emma Robinson, chapter 6, in Westminster Abbey; or, The Days of the Reformation, volume 1, London: John Mortimer, page 146

   […] the beggars, looking up with the bright faces of arrivants, turned into our compound-front.

   1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, London: Jonathan Cape, Section 2, Book 6, Chapter 14

   [He] finally gave up any hope that a bellhop would actually help an arrivant or somebody about to leave the hotel with their luggage.

   1998, Howard Norman, The Museum Guard, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 242

   Synonyms: arrival