arrive

Meaning

Verb

• To reach; to get to a certain place.
• To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
• To come; said of time.
• To happen or occur.
• To reach; to come to.
• To bring to shore.

Related

Opposite words

• depart

Origin

• From Middle English arriven, ariven, a borrowing from Old French ariver, from Late Latin *arrīpare, from Latin ad + rīpa. Displaced native oncome, tocome.
• For the sense-derivation, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan > Middle English alenden, landen.