Arrive

Definition: Arrive

Arrive

Verb

1. Reach a destination; arrive by movement or by making progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "He got into college"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight".

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!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "arrive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Arrive \Ar*rive"\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Arrived; Arriving.]. (references)

Synonyms: Arrive

Arrival

Verb: arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up to; overtake, make, fetch; complete; join, rejoin.

Assent

Arrive at an understanding, come to an understanding, come to terms, come to an agreement.

Cessation

Come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a full stop; arrive; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away; (be past); be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct.

Discovery

Trace, get at; hit it, have it; lay one's finger, lay one's hands upon; spot; get at the truth, arrive at the truth; put the saddle on the right horse, hit the right nail on the head.

Eventuality

Verb: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off; (be past).

Judgment

Verb: judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind.

Punctuality

Verb: be prompt, be on time, be in time; arrive on time; be in the nick of time.

Crosswords: Arrive

French (arrives).

Because when they arrive, they're wet and wild, and when they leave they take your house and your car. (Traffic; writing credit: Stephen Gaghan)

It would be bad form to arrive in advance of schedule (A Bridge Too Far; writing credit: Cornelius Ryan; William Goldman)

The gate is still locked we have to wait until the Dudleys arrive. (The Haunting; writing credit: David Self)

An entire legion of my best troops awaits them! Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive. (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan)

It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun, or that death could arrive this same afternoon - this afternoon which is so certain, and which has every hour filled in advance (Final Destination; writing credit: Glen Morgan)

To hurry up and arrive (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf)

Allow, if your still alive, six to eight years to arrive (WALKIN' ON THE SUN; performing artist: Smash Mouth)

Through you I go soon to arrive, (Manic Demise; performing artist: The Creation)

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Church is the only place I know where I can arrive late and get the best seats in the house! (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Arctic Fives Arrive (reference)

• Gods Arrive (reference)

• How to Arrive at a Considered Opinion (reference)

• I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (reference)

• Le Francais Depart Arrive (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sailor Moon: Jupiter And Venus Arrive (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Arrive All Over You (reference)

• Arrive Without Traveling/Ever After (reference)

• Before We Arrive (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crude materials from forest and ocean arrive at the NCI Frederick Cancer Research and Development Facility, where an extraction laboratory prepares samples of the natural substances for chemical analysis. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Scientists and project personnel arrive at Devils Rock to begin placing decoys to attract common murres. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Culvert parts en route to the site arrive as the crane offloads various sections of the culvert off the flatbed. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Additional F-117 stealth fighters arrive in Germany.

F-117s arrive at Aviano to support possible NATO operations.

[Eskimos arrive in an oomiak to keep appointment with dentist on board O.S. Coast Guard Klamath] / U.S. Coast Guard Photograph. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[First nurses to arrive in New Britian]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A Vietnamese mother and baby are helped down the gangway of USS Estes (AGC-12), as refugees arrive at Saigon after being evacuated from the North. Credit: NAVY.

A U.S. Army honor guard presents arms as representatives of the Allied Powers arrive at pierside to be taken to USS Missouri for the surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945. Uniform patches and unit flag indicate that the honor guard is from the 11th Airborne Division Reconnaissance Battalion. USS Buchanan (DD-484) is alongside the pier. She carried some of the dignitaries out to the Missouri. Credit: NAVY.

Two young women arrive at a vacation resort for senior citizens] / alajalov. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The Allied and Associated Powers reserve to themselves the right to arrive at an understanding in this connection with Holland, and Germany hereby agrees to accede if required to any such understanding. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She was pleased with the eagerness to arrive which had made him alter his plan, and travel earlier, later, and quicker, that he might gain half a day.

For Marius to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years

Now the cars of the guests began to arrive, small farmers and their families, migrants from other camps

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Soon, however, better treatments that relieve pain by blocking vanilloid receptors may arrive in drugstores. (references)

Electrical signals arrive in the ventricles in a completely irregular fashion, so the heart beat is completely irregular. (references)

Doctors arrive at a diagnosis of PPS by observing the patient and asking about symptoms, and by excluding other disorders. (references)

Business

Guests to social events (except in the case of cities in the North) can arrive an hour late. (references)

A significant trend that tends to follow the deregulation of telecommunications is that unit costs drop and the market starts to expand as more competitors arrive. (references)

The components of the total import duty include a basic duty, a surcharge on basic duty, an additional duty (popularly called countervailing duty), and a special additional customs duty. The Cost Insurance Freight (CIF)price plus the duties are used to arrive at the landed cost of a product. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

Many Romani children arrive relatively unprepared for schooling; many of them are not proficient in the Bulgarian language. (references)

Civil Liberties

Haiti

When they did arrive, they arrested Convergence leader Gabriel Fortune. (references)

Hong Kong

Government policy is to repatriate all illegal immigrants, including those that arrive from the mainland, as promptly as possible. (references)

Economic History

Japan

Arrival times for shipments and the condition they arrive in are critical. (references)

Japan

Shipments should arrive at the agreed time, and should be well packed and undamaged upon arrival. (references)

Finland

Over 40 percent of the EU's road shipments to Russia are shipped from Finland or arrive via Finland. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

Police cordoned off the area soon after the explosion, but a military investigative team did not arrive until 6 hours later. (references)

Tunisia

When the clients arrive at the police station, they may be forced to wait hours before signing in, making employment impossible and childcare difficult. (references)

Rwanda

There were no developments regarding several refugees returning from the DRC in 1999 who registered at a transit center, but failed to arrive in their home communes. (references)

Minorities

Bhutan

Bilateral negotiations on repatriation issues in November failed to arrive at an agreement, and the matter was deferred to a proposed future session of ministerial-level talks. (references)

Political Economy

ALGERIA

Food products when they arrive in Algeria must have at least 80 percent of their shelf life remaining. (references)

ALGERIA

Because purchasing U.S. grain requires large shipments, long shipping times, and therefore a higher financial risk, Algerian traders often prefer to purchase smaller shipments from Europe, which can arrive in a short time and involve less risk. (references)

Trade

Kuwait

Products must arrive at destination within half the shelf-life duration. (references)

Poland

Finally, cash payments often arrive in the U.S. in installments and not as a single payment. (references)

Barbados

Below are some of the documents that must be presented to customs when goods arrive in Barbados. (references)

Travel

Honduras

They normally arrive the day of, or day after, publication. (references)

Israel

Usually, Israelis arrive well prepared for meetings and are very direct. (references)

Azerbaijan

Business visitors should arrange to be met at the airport when they arrive in Baku. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

After the new recruits arrive at the site they learn that they have been recruited as sex workers. (references)

Lebanon

Their passports usually are confiscated by recruitment agencies or employers when the workers arrive at the airport. (references)

Portugal

The victims often arrive in Portugal with neither money nor documents, making them easy targets for organized crime members. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "arrive": arrive at ♦ arrive at a conclusion ♦ arrive at a decision ♦ arrive at a place ♦ arrive at a resolution ♦ arrive at an understanding ♦ arrive before ♦ arrive dead on time ♦ arrive early ♦ arrive home ♦ arrive in ♦ arrive on the dot ♦ arrive on time ♦ first to arrive ♦ he may arrive ♦ To arrive at. Additional references.

Ending with "arrive": sooner-arrive.

Afrikaans

beland (end up, get), arriveer (end up, get), aankom (end up, get), aanland (end up, get). (various references)

Albanian

arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فد, ‏نجح (achieve, bring off, click, flourish, get on, get through, go off well, make, make a go of it, make efficient, make good, make out, make the grade, manage, pan, pan out, pass, prosper, pull off, pull through, succeed, thrive, triumph, win out, work it), ‏قدم (advance, age, antiquity, be age-old, become old, become timeworn, bring forward, bring out, chip, come, come back, display, extend, foot, get to, give in, move forward, obsolescence, offer, peg, precede, present, produce, proffer, reach, return, set forth, show, submit, tender, turn in), ‏وفق (according to, come, quadrate), ‏وصل (attain, befall, butt, check, come, conduct, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, touch, voucher), ‏حان, ‏جاء (bring, came, come, turn up). (various references)

Aymara

puriña (to arrive). (various references)

Basque

heldu. (various references)

Blackfoot

o'too (to arrive). (various references)

Bulgarian 

преуспявам (go, prosper, speed, succeed, thrive), пристигам (come, come through, get through, hail, land, pull in, reach, roll around, roll round), идвам (accrue, come, hail, materialize, mature, pop along, pop over, reach, rise, roll around, roll in, roll up, set in). (various references)

Chinese 

至 (most, to, until), 踵 (follow, heel), 抵達 (reach), 到达 (Arrived, arriving, Reached, reaching). (various references)

Croatian

stigli, stižemo, stiže. (various references)

Czech

přijet (come, come up, draw in, reach, ride up), přijít (come, come in, come up). (various references)

Danish

ankomme (end up, get). (various references)

Dutch

arriveren (end up, get), aankomen (end up, gain, get, put on weight, touch). (various references)

Esperanto

alveni (get). (various references)

Estonian

saabume. (various references)

Faeroese

koma (appear, appearance, come, emerge, end up, get, perform). (various references)

Farsi 

موفق شدن (Attain, Prosper, Succeed, Wow), واردشدن (Enter), رسیدن (Accede, Achieve, Aim, Amount, Attain, Come, Gain, Get, Land, Receive, Strand). (various references)

Finnish

saapua (appear, approach, come, end up, get). (various references)

Flemish

aankomen, komen. (various references)

French

arriver, arrivent. (various references)

French Canadian

arrive-t-il (does it arrive). (various references)

Frisian

arrivearje (end up, get), oanlânje (end up, get), oankomme (close, end up, get, near, nearby, next). (various references)

Galician

cheguemos. (various references)

German

eintreffen (arrival, be confirmed, be fulfilled, come true, end up, get, get there, to arrive), ankommen (arrival, catch on, come, come across, come along, come down, end up, get, get in, get over, get to, go down, go down well, go over, hinge, move in, pull in, take off, to arrive, wander in), anlangen (concern). (various references)

Greek 

φθάνω (attain, catch up, come, come on, come through, come up to, get, get in, make, reach). (various references)

Guarani

aguahêta (I shall arrive), tereguahê (you ought to arrive), roguahêta (we shall arrive), ñaguahêta (we shall arrive), ñaguahê (we shall arrive). (various references)

Haitian Creole

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Hawaiian

arrij (end up, get), mërrij (end up, get). (various references)

Hebrew 

להופיע (appear, come out, seem, shine, show, show up, turn up), להגיע (come, happen, reach, suffice, touch), לבוא (come, enter, reach), הגיע. (various references)

Hungarian

megérkezni (end up, get). (various references)

Icelandic

koma (come, end up, get). (various references)

Indonesian

tiba (come), mendatang (approaching, come, coming, happen, impending, occur, upcoming), datang (come), berdatangan. (various references)

Irish

tar (come, end up, get), rÚinigh (end up, get). (various references)

Italian

arrivare (accomplish, achieve, attain, be reduced to, come, come about, end up, get, go as far as, go so far as, happen, occur, reach, receive, roll in, roll up, to arrive), giungere (arriving, come, get to, reach, succeed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

着く (to arrive at, to reach), 来る (to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to be due to, to be forthcoming, to be next, to become, to call on, to come, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to get, to grow, to set in). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たどりつく (to arrive somewhere after a struggle, to grope along to, to struggle on to), おみえになる (to arrive), きたる (to arrive, to be due to, to be forthcoming, to be next, to come), くる (hunchback, rickets, to approach, to arrive, to be caused by, to be due, to become, to bore, to call on, to come, to come from, to come on, to come to hand, to derive from, to excavate, to get, to gouge, to grow, to hollow out, to reel, to scoop out, to set in, to wind), ひっちゃく (must arrive, must be received), さいする (to arrive, to come to pass), つく (comes on, to accompany, to adhere, to adjoin, to arrive at, to attach to, to attack, to be added to, to be attached, to be connected with, to be dyed, to be recorded, to be scarred, to be stained, to become allied to, to breathe, to catch fire, to disgorge, to follow, to haunt, to increase, to nudge, to pick at, to poke, to possess, to reach, to settle in, to start, to strike, to study, to study with, to take, to tell, to thrust, to vomit), いたる (to arrive, to attain, to come), いきつく (to arrive at, to end up), いちばんのり (first to arrive, leader of a charge), ゆきつく (to arrive at, to end up), もくてきちにいたる (to arrive at one's destination), えきにつく (to arrive at the station). (various references)

Korean 

도착하십시요. (various references)

Luganda

tutuuka (we arrive). (various references)

Luxembourgish

kënnt (can). (various references)

Malagasy

avy, tonga (arrived). (various references)

Manx

roshtyn (accede, accession to power, arriving, attain, come within, reach, reaching). (various references)

Maori

tae (to arrive). (various references)

Maya

kuch (to arrive). (various references)

Norwegian

ankomme (end up, get). (various references)

Occitan

arribar. (various references)

Papiamen

yega (end up, get). (various references)

Pig Latin

arriveay.(various references)

Polish

przyjechać (end up, get), przyjść (end up, get). (various references)

Portuguese

chegar (achieve, climax, come, get, get around, get in, land, measure up to, set in, suffice, to arrive, turn up). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

chegaremos (we well arrive, we will arrive), chegar (to arrive). (various references)

Quechua

chayasuncheq (we will arrive there), chayaspa (when you arrive). (various references)

Romanian

sosi (be in, come, come down, come in, end up, get, go in, land), ajunge (accede, accomplish, achieve, attain, become, bump, come, do, end up, gain, get, hit, land, manage, overtake, reach, secure, suffice, that will do, touch). (various references)

Romansch

arrivar (to arrive). (various references)

Romany

avàva (to arrive). (various references)

Russian 

прибывать (come, come to hand, end up, get, get in, wax). (various references)

Scottish

ruigidh (will arrive), ruigeas (will arrive), ruig (accomplish, achieve, arrive at, attain, extend to, get, half castrated ram, reach, so far as, to, until). (various references)

Sepedi

fihla (to arrive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stići (catch up, come, get, get in, pull in, reach, reach out), prispeti (fall due, fall due on), dospeti (mature), doći (call for, come, come over, occur, roll up, show). (various references)

Shona

-svika (to arrive). (various references)

Sicilian

arrivari (to arrive). (various references)

Somali

tegi. (various references)

Sotho

fihla. (various references)

Spanish

llegar (blow in, break through, bring up, catch, come, come across, come in, come of, come over, come round, come through, dock, draw in, end up, get, get around, get in, immigrate, infiltrate, invade, jockey, land, last out, pass, pull in, reach, ride up, roll along, roll in, roll up, spend, throw out, to arrive, top off, touch down, travel, turn up, vaporize). (various references)

Sranan

kon (become, come, come about, end up, get, grow, happen), doro (door, end up, get, sift). (various references)

Swahili

kufika (to arrive), itafika (it will arrive). (various references)

Swazi

kú-fika (to arrive). (various references)

Swedish

ankomma (end up, get). (various references)

Tagalog

dumatíng (end up, get). (various references)

Tahitian

tae (to arrive), t‘pae. (various references)

Thai

แก้ปัญหาได้, เกิด, เริ่มต้น (make a beginning / start on, open), มาถึง (get, reach), มีใช้. (various references)

Tswana

tsena, goroga (arriving, coming). (various references)

Turkish

varmak (approach, arrive at, attain, come at, come to, end up, get, get at, get to, go into, hit, make, reach). (various references)

Turkmen 

gelmek (bear (bring), come), зemeleюmek (approach, go up to). (various references)

Ukrainian

відбуватися (be in progress, betide, come about, come off, develop, emanate, hap, happen, intervene, occur, proceed, transpire), наставати (approach, come, come on, set in), приїзжджати, приходити (come, come in, roll in), прибувати (come, get in, land), добиватися успіху (get ahead). (various references)

Welsh

cyrraedd (accomplish, achieve, amount, arrive at, attain, get, reach). (various references)

Wolof

yeggee, egg. (various references)

Xhosa

sizafika (We will arrive), ndifika (I arrive), kufika (To arrive). (various references)

Yucatec

k'uchul (end up, get). (various references)

Zulu

-theleka (end up, get), -finyela (end up, get), -fika (come, end up, get). (various references)

ad ripam, addon, aderam, aderant, aderit, aderunt, adesse, adessent, adesset, adest, adestis, adesto, adfuerat, adfuerunt, adfuisset, adfuit, adfuturam, adsint, adsum, adsumus, adsunt, advenerant, advenerat, advenerit, advenerunt, adveniat, adveniebant, adveniens, advenient, adveniet, advenio, advenire, adveniret, advenis, advenissemus, advenissent, advenit, adventu, adventum, adventus, deveni, devenient, devenientes, devenimus, devenire, devenirent, devenisset, devenit, devenitque, emergebant, emerserunt, pervenerat, perveneris, pervenero, pervenerunt, perveni, perveniant, pervenias, perveniat, perveniatur, perveniens, pervenient, pervenientes, perveniet, pervenimus, pervenire, pervenirent, perveniret, pervenissent, pervenisset, pervenisti, pervenit, pervenitque, perveniunt, supervenerant, supervenerat, supervenere, supervenerit, supervenerunt, superveniat, superveniens, supervenient, superveniente, supervenientem, supervenientibus, supervenientis, superveniet, supervenio, supervenire, superveniret, supervenit, superventura. (various references)

gelendan. (various references)

ariver. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "arrive": arrived, arriver, arrivers, arrives. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Arrive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abrive, agreve, agrif, Arava, arcive, arfie, arif, arive, ariven, ariver, arove, Arrale, arreve, arri, arrine, arriva, arriven, Arrivetz, Arrupe, artif, arve, Arvire, erive, errif. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: varier.

-1 letter: airer, aiver, raver, river.

-2 letters: aver, rare, rave, rear, rive, vair, vera, vier.

-3 letters: air, are, ave, ear, era, err, ire, rei, rev, ria, var, via, vie.

-4 letters: ae, ai, ar, er, re.

+1 letter: arrived, arriver, arrives, riviera, variers.

+2 letters: arrivers, averring, breviary, privater, ravisher, rivieras, savorier, veratria, veratrin.

+3 letters: arriviste, braveries, cabdriver, caregiver, carnivore, corrasive, narrative, overtrain, primavera, privateer, ravishers, reprieval, retrieval, rivalries, riverbank, riverboat, riverward, savourier, vaporizer, varnisher, veratrias, veratrine, veratrins.

+4 letters: advertiser, arborvitae, architrave, arrivistes, breviaries, cabdrivers, caregivers, carnivores, drivetrain, gravimeter, gravimetry, irrelative, irrelevant, irritative, margravine, misaverred, narratives, overdaring, overpraise, overrating, overstrain, overtrains, privateers, proverbial, recreative, refractive, reparative, reprievals, retrievals, retroviral, revalorize, riverbanks, riverboats, riverwards, silverware, traversing, travertine, vaporizers, variegator, variometer, varletries, varnishers, veratrines, verbalizer, vermicular, versicular, veterinary, vulgarizer, weaverbird.