arrive

Verb

1. To reach; to get to a certain place.
   • We've just arrived at the hotel to book in, so we should arrive at Mike’s in time for lunch.
   • He arrived home for two days.
   • In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought...

   Synonyms: fetch up

2. To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
   • He had finally arrived on Broadway.
   • Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes. - 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts,...
3. To come; said of time.
   • The time has arrived for us to depart.
4. To happen or occur.
   • Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives. - 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter:
5. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
6. To reach; to come to.
   • Ere he arrive the happy isle. - 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC;...
   • Ere we could arrive the point proposed. - 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
   • Arrive at last the blessed goal. - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Epilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
7. To bring to shore.
   • and made the sea-trod ship arrive them - 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo: