arrive

From Middle English arriven, ariven, a borrowing from Old French ariver, from Late Latin *arrīpare, from Latin ad + rīpa (“shore”). Displaced native oncome.

For the sense-derivation, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”) > English land.

• enPR: ə-rīvʹ, IPA^(key): /əˈɹaɪv/

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• Rhymes: -aɪv

arrive (third-person singular simple present arrives, present participle arriving, simple past and past participle arrived)

1. (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%.

2. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.

   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.

3. (intransitive) To come; said of time.

   The time has arrived for us to depart.

4. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Waller

     Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.

5. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Ere he arrive the happy isle.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Ere we could arrive the point proposed.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Tennyson

     Arrive at last the blessed goal.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Chapman

     and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

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

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• arrival

• Rivera, Vierra, ravier, varier

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁiv/

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arrive

1. first-person singular present indicative of arriver
2. third-person singular present indicative of arriver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of arriver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of arriver
5. second-person singular imperative of arriver

• rivera
• varier
• verrai
• virera