Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
arrive, get, come
(verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; “She arrived home at 7 o’clock”; “She didn’t get to Chicago until after midnight”
arrive, make it, get in, go far
(verb) succeed in a big way; get to the top; “After he published his book, he had arrived”; “I don’t know whether I can make it in science!”; “You will go far, my boy!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
• Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.
• depart
• Rivera, Vierra, ravier, varier
Source: Wiktionary
Ar*rive", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Arrived; p. pr. & vb. n. Arriving.] Etym: [OE. ariven to arrive, land, OF. ariver, F. arriver, fr. LL. arripare, adripare, to come to shore; L. ad + ripa the shore or sloping bank of a river. Cf. Riparian.]
1. To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by to), also by in and from. "Arrived in Padua." Shak. [Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum. Holland. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich. Macaulay.
2. To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment. To arrive at, or attain to. When he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton.
3. To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.
4. To happen or occur. [Archaic] Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives. Waller.
Ar*rive", v. t.
1. To bring to shore. [Obs.] And made the sea-trod ship arrive them. Chapman.
2. To reach; to come to. [Archaic] Ere he arrive the happy isle. Milton. Ere we could arrive the point proposed. Shak. Arrive at last the blessed goal. Tennyson.
Ar*rive", n.
Definition: Arrival. [Obs.] Chaucer. How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.