əˈrīv verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle English ariven, from Old French ariver, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin arripare to land, come to shore, from Latin ad- + (assumed) Vulgar Latin -ripare (from Latin ripa bank, shore) — more at rive
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to reach a destination : come to the end of a journey
they arrived by plane at midnight
b. : to make an appearance : come upon the scene
the crowd became silent when the officers arrived
2.
a. : to gain or achieve an end especially by conscious effort : attain or reach a state of mind or a position — used with at
many attempts to arrive at an understanding — C.L.Jones
b. : to reach or come to a stage of development especially by the passage of time : attain — used with at
moved out to the suburb last year when their eldest child was arriving at school age — F.L.Allen
3.
a. archaic : to come to pass : happen , occur
any such event may arrive to a woman — Henry Fielding
b. : to be near or at hand in time : come
the time to go finally arrived
4. : to achieve success or gain recognition : be successful
believed that a man who has not arrived by forty will never arrive — Catherine D. Bowen
transitive verb
1. obsolete : to cause to arrive : bring , convey
and made the sea-trod ship arrive them near — George Chapman
2. archaic : to come to : reach
ere he arrive the happy isle — John Milton