From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
arrive
v 1: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She
arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago
until after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant:
go away, go forth, leave]
2: 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!" [syn: arrive, {make
it}, get in, go far]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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[[AE]neas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived
. . . and landed in the country of Laurentum.
--Holland.
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There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at
Ipswich. --Macaulay.
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2. To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass
an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning,
or experiment.
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To arrive at, or attain to.
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When he arrived at manhood. --Rogers.
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We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the
generalization of facts. --McCosh.
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If at great things thou wouldst arrive. --Milton.
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3. To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.
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4. To happen or occur. [Archaic]
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Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
--Waller.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Arrive \Ar*rive"\, n.
Arrival. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! --Drayton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Arrive \Ar*rive"\, v. t.
1. To bring to shore. [Obs.]
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And made the sea-trod ship arrive them. --Chapman.
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2. To reach; to come to. [Archaic]
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Ere he arrive the happy isle. --Milton.
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Ere we could arrive the point proposed. --Shak.
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Arrive at last the blessed goal. --Tennyson.
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