arrive
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
arrive (arrives, present participle arriving; past and past participle arrived)
- (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
- We arrived at the hotel and booked in.
- He arrived home for two days.
- (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
- He had finally arrived on Broadway.
- 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)
- Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
- (intransitive) To come; said of time.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
- (intransitive) To happen or occur.
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
- (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
- 1849, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1850, OCLC 3968433 ↗, (
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- Arrive at last the blessed goal.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them
- French: arriver
- German: gelangen, kommen, erreichen, ankommen
- Italian: arrivare
- Portuguese: chegar
- Russian: (on foot) доходи́ть
- Spanish: llegar
- French: arriver
- German: ankommen, einlangen (Austrian German), einlaufen, eintreffen
- Italian: arrivare
- Portuguese: chegar
- Russian: прибыва́ть
- Spanish: llegar, arribar
- French: réussir, percer
- German: schaffen
- Portuguese: vencer
- Russian: достига́ть
- Spanish: lograr, triunfar, tener éxito
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