ARRIVE

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

Etymology

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.

Usage notes

• Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.

Antonyms

• depart

Anagrams

• 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