Arrived

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪvd/

Definitions

1. Has come to or reached a specified place
2. Has gotten to a location after traveling
3. Has appeared at an intended point, completing a journey

Etymology: Arrive began as a word about the sea. Its ancestor, Early Medieval Latin "adripare", meant "to land" or "come ashore", and it was built from Latin "ripa", the shore or riverbank. That nautical sense survives in the older English word "land" itself, which once meant to arrive at shore before it came to mean setting foot on any ground. English borrowed the word from Old French "ariver" in Middle English, where it still carried this sense of making landfall. Arrive displaced the native English verbs "oncome" and "tocome", which had meant roughly "come to" a place. The Latin-derived word gradually spread from maritime arrival to any journey's end, so a traveller could now arrive at a town, a station, or a conclusion. "Arrived" is simply the past tense and past participle of "arrive", so its history is that of the base verb.

Synonyms: came, reached, appeared, showed up, landed

Antonyms: departed, left, vanished, disappeared, fled