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ar⋅rive

  [uh-rahyv] verb, -rived, -riv⋅ing.
Use arrived at in a Sentence
–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.
—Verb phrase
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; ME a(r)riven < OF a(r)river < VL *arrīpāre to come to land, v. deriv. of L ad rīpam to the riverbank; cf. river 1

Related forms:
ar⋅riv⋅er, noun
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Word Origin & History

arrive 
1205, from O.Fr. ariver "to come to land," from V.L. *arripare "to touch the shore," from L. ad ripam "to the shore," from ad "to" + ripa "shore," with an original meaning of coming ashore after a long voyage. Sense of "to come to a position or state of mind" is from 1393.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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