Arrives

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪvz/

Definitions

1. The process of reaching a designated location or arrival point is marked by an event where a person or object comes to a specific place as anticipated or planned
2. The action of reaching a particular place occurs when someone or something shows up at an intended destination as per arrangements
3. Comes to a particular place after traveling or movement

Etymology: The verb "arrive" began as a nautical word about reaching a shore. It came into Middle English from Old French "ariver", which descended from Early Medieval Latin "adripare", meaning "to land, come ashore". That Latin verb was built from "ripa", "shore or river-bank", so the original image was a boat grounding on the bank of a river. The sense of simply reaching any destination came later. English already had a native counterpart. Old English speakers used "gelandian" and "lendan" for arriving at land or landing, and Middle English "alenden" and "landen" carried the same nautical meaning. The Old French borrowing displaced the older native verbs "oncome" and "tocome", which meant roughly the same thing, so "arrive" won out over them.

Synonyms: comes, reaches, enters, appears, shows up

Antonyms: departs, leaves, withdraws, escapes, vanishes