arrive

verb

Etymology: From Middle English arriven, ariven, from Old French ariver, from Early Medieval Latin adrīpāre (“to land, come ashore”), derived from Latin rīpa (“shore, river-bank”). Displaced native oncome, tocome. For the semantic evolution, compare Old English ġelandian, ġelendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”).

1. To reach; to get to a certain place.

   “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.”

2. To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.

   “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.”

3. To come; said of time.

   “The time has arrived for us to depart.”

4. To happen or occur.

   “Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.”

5. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
6. To reach; to come to.

   “Ere he arrive the happy isle.”

   “Ere we could arrive the point proposed.”

7. To bring to shore.

   “and made the sea-trod ship arrive them”