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verb (used without object)
1.
to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
2.
to come to be near or present in time: The moment to act has arrived.
3.
to attain a position of success, power, achievement, fame, or the like: After years of hard work, she has finally arrived in her field.
4.
Archaic. to happen: It arrived that the master had already departed.
verb (used with object)
5.
Obsolete. to reach; come to.
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Arrived
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
6.
arrive at,
a.
to come to a place after traveling; reach.
b.
to attain the objective in a course or process: to arrive at a conclusion.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English a(r)riven < Old French a(r)river < Vulgar Latin *arrīpāre to come to land, verbal derivative of Latin ad rīpam to the riverbank; compare river1
1175–1225; Middle English a(r)riven < Old French a(r)river < Vulgar Latin *arrīpāre to come to land, verbal derivative of Latin ad rīpam to the riverbank; compare river1
Related forms
ar·riv·er, noun
un·ar·rived, adjective
un·ar·riv·ing, adjective
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