What does ARRIVE mean?

Definitions for ARRIVE
əˈraɪvar·rive

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. arrive, get, comeverb

    reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

    "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

  2. arrive, make it, get in, go farverb

    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!"

Wiktionary

  1. arriveverb

    to reach

  2. arriveverb

    to get to a certain place

    We arrived and booked in.

  3. arriveverb

    to obtain a level of success or fame.

    He had finally arrived on Broadway.

  4. Etymology: From ariver, from *arripare, from ad + ripa. For the sense-derivation, compare land.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To ARRIVEverb

    Etymology: arriver, Fr. to come on shore.

    At length arriving on the banks of Nile,
    Wearied with length of ways, and worn with toil,
    She laid her down. Dryden.

    When we were arrived upon the verge of his estate, we stopped at a little inn, to rest ourselves and our horses.

    The bounds of all body we have no difficulty to arrive at; but when the mind is there, it finds nothing to hinder its progress. John Locke.

    It is the highest wisdom by despising the world to arrive at heaven; they are blessed who converse with God. Taylor.

    The virtuous may know in speculation, what they could never arrive at by practice, and avoid the snares of the crafty. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 245.

    Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives,
    More to be valued than a thousand lives. Edmund Waller.

ChatGPT

  1. arrive

    To reach a destination or a specific place, typically at the end of a journey or movement. It can also mean to come to a certain point in a process, activity or time.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Arriveverb

    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

  2. Arriveverb

    to reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment

  3. Arriveverb

    to come; said of time; as, the time arrived

  4. Arriveverb

    to happen or occur

  5. Arriveverb

    to bring to shore

  6. Arriveverb

    to reach; to come to

  7. Arrivenoun

    arrival

  8. 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.]

Wikidata

  1. Arrive

    Arrive is a Norwegian information technology company owned by Norges Statsbaner that offers a wide range of Information Technology services, primarily targeting the railway and public transport sector, with the NSB corporation being the dominant customer. The company has 70 employees, is based in Oslo and was created in 2001 as a limited company, though had been a separate division within NSB since 1970.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Arrive

    ar-rīv′, v.i. to reach any place: to attain to any object (with at).—ns. Arrīv′al, the act of arriving: persons or things that arrive; Arrīv′ance (Shak.), company arriving. [O. Fr. ariver—Low L. adripāre—L. ad, to, ripa, a bank.]

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ARRIVE' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3404

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ARRIVE' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3601

  3. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ARRIVE' in Verbs Frequency: #162

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Anagrams for ARRIVE »

  1. ravier

  2. varier

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARRIVE in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ARRIVE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of ARRIVE in a Sentence

  1. Shah Asad Rizvi:

    An audience of angels descends into the ambience, reciting praise in your glory when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet, heaven moves. That is the power of dance

  2. Van Der Klaauw:

    It took days and days to organise safe passage. It did arrive in Aden last Saturday. It was the first time we got a convoy into Aden for weeks.

  3. Seth Faison:

    The Global Fund has already delivered shipments of drugs as scheduled for existing patients and is front-loading an additional 12-month supply of drugs, the first consignment of the 12-month front-load will arrive next month, he said. But he acknowledged that front-loading the delivery of drugs, while not increasing the total amount of drugs it sends, was a.

  4. The Terre Haute Police Department:

    At 5 minutes and 52 seconds, the officer points out to a neighbor an opening in the fence where he believes the dogs got out from, the rest of the body camera video depicts officers waiting for a male resident to arrive and officers speaking to him about the animals.

  5. Marguerite de Valois:

    Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

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