Arrive Meaning
/əˈɹaɪv/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo reach; to get to a certain place.
verbTo obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
Sentence Examples
When do we arrive?
The train from Geneva will arrive at the station.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After a long flight, we will finally ____ at the airport gate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
What time do you think the guests will ____ for the dinner party?.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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%."
— 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
"Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes."
— 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921, page 58:
"Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives."
— 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter:
"Ere he arrive the happy isle."
— 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"Ere we could arrive the point proposed."
— 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After a long flight, we will finally ____ at the airport gate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
What time do you think the guests will ____ for the dinner party?.