arriveverb [ I ]
uk/əˈraɪv/us/əˈraɪv/arrive verb [ I ] (REACH)
A2 to reach a place, especially at the end of a journey:
What time will your train arrive?
It was dark by the time we arrived at the station.
We arrived in Prague later that day.
I arrived back to find that my room had been burgled.
What time does the mail usually arrive (= is it delivered)?
I ordered some CDs over a month ago, but they still haven't arrived (= I have not received them).
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- We didn't arrive at our hotel until after midnight.
- An excited crowd waited for the singer to arrive.
- Try and get some sleep on the plane, then you'll arrive feeling fresh.
- What time does the flight from Amsterdam arrive?
- She's not a very organized person and she always arrives late at meetings.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- hove
- intrusion
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch invasion
- rock
- roll up! idiom
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arrive verb [ I ] (BEGIN)
to happen or start to exist:
The leaves starting to turn brown is a sign that autumn has arrived.
If a baby arrives, it is born:
Their baby Olivia arrived on the date she was expected.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- swing into action idiom
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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Stages of life
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Idiom(s)
to have arrived
Phrasal verb(s)
arrive at sth