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Webster 1913 Edition
Arrive
Ar-rive′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Arrived
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Arriving
.] [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′
,Verb.
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. Shakespeare
Arrive
at last the blessed goal. Tennyson.
Ar-rive′
,Noun.
Arrival.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
How should I joy of thy
arrive
to hear! Drayton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Arrive
ARRI'VE
,Verb.
I.
1.
Literally, to come to the shore, or bank. Hence to come to or reach in progress by water, followed by at. We arrived at Havre De Grace, July 10, 1924. N.W.2.
To come to or reach by traveling on land; as, the post arrives at 7 o'clock.3.
To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass by effort, practice, study, enquiry, reasoning or experiment; as, to arrive at an unusual degree of excellence or wickedness; to arrive at a conclusion.4.
To happen or occur.He to whom this glorious death arrives.
ARRI'VE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
arrive
arrive
See also: arrivé
English
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.
- We arrived at the hotel and booked in.
- 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
- 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%.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To come; said of time.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
- (intransitive) To happen or occur.
- Waller
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
- Waller
- (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
- Milton
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.
- Shakespeare
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
- Tennyson
- Arrive at last the blessed goal.
- Milton
- (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
- Chapman
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them
- Chapman
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
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Translations
to reach
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to get to a certain place
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to obtain a level of success or fame
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