arrive
verb/əˈɹaɪv/
Etymology 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”).
7 senses
1
To reach; to get to a certain place.
- We've just arrived at the hotel to book in, so we should arrive at Mike’s in time for lunch.
- He arrived home for two days.
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- 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%.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
2
To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
- 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.2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921, page 58:
3
To come; said of time.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
4
To happen or occur.
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter:
6
Archaic To reach; to come to.
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
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- Arrive at last the blessed goal.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Epilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
7
Obsolete To bring to shore.
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo:
- Antonyms
- depart
- Derived terms
- arrivance, arrivant, arrive at, it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive, rearrive, unarrived, unarriving
- Related terms
- arrival