arrive

1. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.Examples: "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 anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%."copulativeintransitive

2. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.Examples: "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."intransitive

3. (intransitive) To come; said of time.Examples: "The time has arrived for us to depart."intransitive

4. (intransitive) To happen or occur.Examples: "Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives."intransitive

5. (intransitive, often vulgar, slang, chiefly UK, Ireland) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.IrelandUKintransitiveoftenslangvulgar

6. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.Examples: "Ere he arrive the happy isle."; "Ere we could arrive the point proposed."; "Arrive at last the blessed goal."archaictransitive