arrive

Etymology

From Middle English arriven, ariven, a borrowing from Old French ariver, from Late Latin *arrīpare, from Latin ad + rīpa (“shore”). Displaced native oncome, tocome. For the sense-derivation, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”).

verb

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.
   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%. 2013-05-25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
2. (intransitive) 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. 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921, page 58
3. (intransitive) To come; said of time.
   The time has arrived for us to depart.
4. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
   Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives. 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter
5. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
   and made the sea-trod ship arrive them 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo