arrive
VerbWordNet 3.0
Verb (2)
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress“She arrived home at 7 o'clock”“She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight”Synonyms: getcome
- 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!”Synonyms: make itget ingo far
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Arrive \Ar*rive"\, v. 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. [1913 Webster]
[[AE]neas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum.— Holland.[1913 Webster]
There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at Ipswich.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
2.To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment. [1913 Webster]
To arrive at, or attain to. [1913 Webster]
When he arrived at manhood.— Rogers.[1913 Webster]
We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts.— McCosh.[1913 Webster]
If at great things thou wouldst arrive.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
3.To come; said of time; as, the time arrived. [1913 Webster]
4.To happen or occur. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.— Waller.[1913 Webster]
Arrive \Ar*rive"\, n. Arrival. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
Arrive \Ar*rive"\, v. t.
1.To bring to shore. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
And made the sea-trod ship arrive them.— Chapman.[1913 Webster]
2.To reach; to come to. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
Ere he arrive the happy isle.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
Ere we could arrive the point proposed.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Arrive at last the blessed goal.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]