destination
n. countablen. the place where someone is going or where something is being sent. You use this word when you reach the end of a trip.
n. the place to which someone or something is going or being sent. Often used in travel and logistics contexts to denote the terminal point of a journey.
We finally reached our destination after a long flight.
The GPS calculated that we would arrive at our holiday destination just before sunset.
While the journey through the mountains was visually stunning, the remote coastal destination proved to be even more breathtaking than the travel brochures had suggested.
From Latin dēstinātiō, from dēstinō (“to destine”).
Commonly used with the preposition 'at' or 'to' ('arrive at the destination', 'travel to the destination').
We arrived to our destinationWe arrived at our destinationThe verb 'arrive' takes the preposition 'at' for specific places like a destination, not 'to'.