Arrive

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪv/

Definitions

1. to reach a destination or place after traveling or moving toward it
2. To come to or get to a location following movement from elsewhere
3. To reach a particular point or destination after going from one place to another

Etymology: The verb "arrive" began life as a nautical term. Its ancestor is Early Medieval Latin "adripare," meaning "to land" or "come ashore," built from Latin "ripa," the shore or bank of a river. Sailors reaching a coast were the original arrivals, and the word carried that sense of touching land into Old French as "ariver." English borrowed it as "ariven" in Middle English, and it kept its shoreline meaning for a while. English already had its own nautical verbs for this idea: Old English "gelandian" and "lendan," meaning to come to land, which gave Middle English "landen" and "alenden." The French loan slowly took over the broader sense of reaching any destination, and it displaced native words such as "oncome" and "tocome," which had meant roughly the same thing.

Synonyms: reach, come, get, land, appear

Antonyms: depart, leave, exit, vanish, disappear