Arrive

/əˈɹaɪv/ · verb

Meaning

(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
2. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
3. (intransitive) To come; said of time.
4. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
5. (intransitive, often vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
6. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.

Example Sentences

We've just arrived at the hotel to book in, so we should arrive at Mike’s in time for lunch.

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%.

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.

The time has arrived for us to depart.

Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.

Ere he arrive the happy isle.

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Word Forms

• arrives
• arriving
• arrived

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