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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”).

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.

    He arrived home for two days.

    • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎[1], 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.

    • 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter:

      Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.

  5. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.

    • 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo:

      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.

to reach

to get to a certain place

to obtain a level of success or fame

arrive

  1. inflection of arriver:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative