arrive

verb

/əˈɹaɪv/

Etymology

From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre (“to land, come ashore”), derived from Latin rīpa (“shore, river-bank”). Displaced native oncome, tocome. For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”).

derived from rīpa — “shore, river-bank”
derived from adripo — “to land, come ashore”
derived from ariver
inherited from arriven

Definitions

1
To reach
To reach; to get to a certain place.
- We've just arrived at the hotel to book in, so we should arrive at Mike’s in time for lunch.
- He arrived home for two days.
2
To obtain a level of success or fame
To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
- He had finally arrived on Broadway.
- 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
To come
To come; said of time.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
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1. 4
  To happen or occur.
  - Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
2. To achieve orgasm
  To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
3. 6
  To bring to shore.
  - and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

The neighborhood

antonymdepart
neighborarrival

Derived

arrivance, arrivant, arrive at, it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive, rearrive, unarrived, unarriving

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at arrive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at arrive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at arrive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA