Word definition: arrive

Etimology


From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre (“to land, come ashore”), derived from Latin rīpa (“shore, river-bank”). Displaced native oncome, tocome. For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”).

verb


arrive (third-person singular simple present arrives, present participle arriving, simple past and past participle arrived)

(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.

(intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.

(intransitive) To come; said of time.

(intransitive) To happen or occur.

(transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.

(intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.

Examples


We arrived at the hotel and booked in.

He arrived home for two days.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

He had finally arrived on Broadway.

Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.

The time has arrived for us to depart.

Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.

Ere he arrive the happy isle.

Ere we could arrive the point proposed.

Arrive at last the blessed goal.

and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

Related words


antonyms

depart

related terms

arrival

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