Arrive
Pronunciation
- enPR: ə-rīv', IPA: /əˈraɪv/
Origin
From Old French ariver, from Late Latin *arrīpare, from Latin ad + rīpa ("shore"). For the sense-derivation, compare land.
Full definition of arrive
Verb
- (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.We arrived at the hotel and booked in.
- 2013-05-25, No hiding place, In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketingâ€â€”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%.
- (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame.He had finally arrived on Broadway.
- 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
- To come; said of time.The time has arrived for us to depart.
- To happen or occur.
- WallerHappy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
- (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
- MiltonEre he arrive the happy isle.
- ShakespeareEre we could arrive the point proposed.
- TennysonArrive at last the blessed goal.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
- Chapmanand made the sea-trod ship arrive them
Usage notes
Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, likely formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.