arrive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
    come; get.
    • She arrived home at 7 o'clock
    • She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight
  2. verb succeed in a big way; get to the top
    get in; make it; go far.
    • 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!

WordNet

Ar*rive" intransitive verb
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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Arrived present participle & verbal noun Arriving
Definitions
  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.
    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" transitive verb
Definitions
  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. Shak.
    Arrive at last the blessed goal. Tennyson.
Ar*rive" noun
Definitions
  1. Arrival. Obs. Chaucer.
    How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton.

Webster 1913