homecoming

Main Entry:
arrival [uh-rahy-vuhl]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: coming to a destination
Synonyms: accession, advent, alighting, appearance, approach, arriving, debarkation, disembarkation, dismounting, entrance, happening, homecoming, influx, ingress, landing, meeting, occurrence, return
Antonyms: departure, disappearance, leave
Main Entry: reunion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: social gathering
Synonyms: assembly, get-together, homecoming, making up, reconciliation, reuniting
Related Words
Main Entry: arrival
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
ETA, arriving, homeward, overdue
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Terminal motion at] Arrival.
Category: 4. Motion with reference to direction
Synonyms:
-nouns
arrival, advent; landing; debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur., home, goal; landing place, landing stage; bunder; resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port; terminus, halting place, halting ground; journey's end; anchorage (refuge)., return, recursion, remigration; meeting; rencounter, encounter., completion.
-verbs
arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up to; overtake, make, fetch; complete; join, rejoin., light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down (be located); get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in (ingress); make one's appearance (appear) [more]; drop in; detrain; outspan., come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter; come in contact.
-adjectives
arriving; homeward bound.
-adverbs
here, hither.
Antonyms: departure
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