arrive
pronunciation
How to pronounce arrive in British English:
UK [əˈraɪv]
How to pronounce arrive in American English:
US [əˈraɪv]
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- Verb:
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- succeed in a big way; get to the top
Word Origin
- arrive
- arrive: [13] When speakers of early Middle English ‘arrived’, what they were literally doing was coming to shore after a voyage. For arrive was originally a Vulgar Latin compound verb based on the Latin noun rīpa ‘shore, river bank’ (as in the English technical term riparian ‘of a river bank’; and river comes from the same source). From the phrase ad rīpam ‘to the shore’ came the verb *arripāre ‘come to land’, which passed into English via Old French ariver. It does not seem to have been until the early 14th century that the more general sense of ‘reaching a destination’ started to establish itself in English.=> riparian, river
- arrive (v.)
- c. 1200, "reach land, reach the end of a journey by sea," from Anglo-French ariver, Old French ariver (11c.) "to come to land," from Vulgar Latin *arripare "to touch the shore," from Latin ad ripam "to the shore," from ad "to" (see ad-) + ripa "shore" (see riparian). The original notion is of coming ashore after a long voyage. Of journeys other than by sea, from late 14c. Sense of "to come to a position or state of mind" is from late 14c. Related: Arrived; arriving.
Example
- 1. It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive .
- 2. October 18 . Two soviet cargo ships arrive that day .
- 3. I 'll telephone you when I arrive .
- 4. When the migrants arrive in hengdian they register at a local acting guild .
- 5. So when will the semantic web arrive ?