to arrive
- verb
- /əˈraɪv/
- After a long drive, they finally arrived at their destination.
- newly arrived
- newly arrived refugees
- newly arrived immigrants
A text pops up that reads all three bags will arrive to your house today.
- A text pops up that reads all three bags will arrive to your house today.
- And so once I once I arrived, I was unhappy.
- Nobody knew until the pictures arrived, OK?
- And at that moment a fireman arrived and said, follow me.
- So we place this order, it arrives and then she disappears.
- And the youth would arrive with our third staff member.
- I am going to arrive any second now.
- As far as food went, they had arrived just at the right time.
Examples
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We're going to sit tight and wait for help to arrive in the morning.
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They should arrive in about 15 minutes.
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And by the time he arrived, it was too late.
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So the doctor arrived too late this time also.
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I am going to arrive any second now.
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The next day, Napoleon arrived to take command.
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All right. Well, we have arrived in Greece.
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She arrived back in New York a week or so ago.
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He's staying here with me until the doctor and the police arrive.
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In late May, Captain Benjamin Watkins's company arrived at the post to assist with removal.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
Move toward and reach a place or position
Get to a place, level, or goal after effort
Reach a place, for example a station, or come to a decision after thinking
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Official
- Formal
- Formal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Arrive comes from Old French arriver, which meant 'to come to the shore' and from Latin parts ad- 'to' and ripa 'bank'. So to arrive is to reach a place at the end of a journey.