What does arrive mean?

Definitions for arrive
əˈraɪvar·rive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. arrive, get, comeverb

    reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

    "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

  2. arrive, make it, get in, go farverb

    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!"

Wiktionary

  1. arriveverb

    to reach

  2. arriveverb

    to get to a certain place

    We arrived and booked in.

  3. arriveverb

    to obtain a level of success or fame.

    He had finally arrived on Broadway.

  4. Etymology: From ariver, from *arripare, from ad + ripa. For the sense-derivation, compare land.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To ARRIVEverb

    Etymology: arriver, Fr. to come on shore.

    At length arriving on the banks of Nile,
    Wearied with length of ways, and worn with toil,
    She laid her down. Dryden.

    When we were arrived upon the verge of his estate, we stopped at a little inn, to rest ourselves and our horses.

    The bounds of all body we have no difficulty to arrive at; but when the mind is there, it finds nothing to hinder its progress. John Locke.

    It is the highest wisdom by despising the world to arrive at heaven; they are blessed who converse with God. Taylor.

    The virtuous may know in speculation, what they could never arrive at by practice, and avoid the snares of the crafty. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 245.

    Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives,
    More to be valued than a thousand lives. Edmund Waller.

ChatGPT

  1. arrive

    To reach a destination or a specific place, typically at the end of a journey or movement. It can also mean to come to a certain point in a process, activity or time.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Arriveverb

    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

  2. Arriveverb

    to reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment

  3. Arriveverb

    to come; said of time; as, the time arrived

  4. Arriveverb

    to happen or occur

  5. Arriveverb

    to bring to shore

  6. Arriveverb

    to reach; to come to

  7. Arrivenoun

    arrival

  8. Etymology: [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.]

Wikidata

  1. Arrive

    Arrive is a Norwegian information technology company owned by Norges Statsbaner that offers a wide range of Information Technology services, primarily targeting the railway and public transport sector, with the NSB corporation being the dominant customer. The company has 70 employees, is based in Oslo and was created in 2001 as a limited company, though had been a separate division within NSB since 1970.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Arrive

    ar-rīv′, v.i. to reach any place: to attain to any object (with at).—ns. Arrīv′al, the act of arriving: persons or things that arrive; Arrīv′ance (Shak.), company arriving. [O. Fr. ariver—Low L. adripāre—L. ad, to, ripa, a bank.]

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'arrive' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3404

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'arrive' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3601

  3. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'arrive' in Verbs Frequency: #162

Anagrams for arrive »

  1. ravier

  2. varier

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of arrive in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of arrive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of arrive in a Sentence

  1. Mayor Ravi Bhalla:

    I received a call from our police chief Kenneth Ferrante notifying me of a bar fight in downtown Hoboken, with at least one person falling in and out of consciousness, and our police having to wait for over 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, because our EMS is inundated with service calls, this is unfortunately a contributing factor why we cannot continue bar operations which can trigger calls for service that are delayed in part because of this public health crisis.

  2. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe:

    Japan believes that the day will come in the near future when we can recognise Palestine as a state, in order for that day to arrive sooner, we will appeal to both Israel and Palestine to resume negotiations to advance the so-called two-state solution.

  3. Daniel Gustavo Veloso:

    You don't know how painful it is to arrive at the hospital and see your father inside a black garbage bag, with just the face out of it.

  4. Laxman Singh Rathore:

    There's a semblance of normality in the forecast that rains would arrive by June 7. In effect, I don't see any impact on sowing or overall agricultural productivity.

  5. Seneca:

    We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

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