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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

arrive
     v 1: reach a destination; arrive by movement or by making
          progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "He got into
          college"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after
          midnight" [syn: get, come] [ant: leave]
     2: succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published
        his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can
        make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!" [syn: make
        it, get in, go far]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Arrive \Ar*rive"\, v. t.
   1. To bring to shore. [Obs.]

            And made the sea-trod ship arrive them. --Chapman.

   2. To reach; to come to. [Archaic]

            Ere he arrive the happy isle.         --Milton.

            Ere we could arrive the point proposed. --Shak.

            Arrive at last the blessed goal.      --Tennyson.
Arrive \Ar*rive"\, n.
   Arrival. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

         How should I joy of thy arrive to hear!  --Drayton.
Arrive \Ar*rive"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Arrived; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Arriving.] [OE. ariven to arrive, land, OF. ariver, F.
   arriver, fr. LL. arripare, adripare, to come to shore; L. ad
   + ripa the shore or sloping bank of a river. Cf. Riparian.]
   1. To come to the shore or bank. In present usage: To come in
      progress by water, or by traveling on land; to reach by
      water or by land; -- followed by at (formerly sometimes by
      to), also by in and from. ``Arrived in Padua.'' --Shak.

            [[AE]neas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived
            . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum.
                                                  --Holland.

            There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived at
            Ipswich.                              --Macaulay.

   2. To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass
      an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning,
      or experiment.

   To arrive at, or attain to.

            When he arrived at manhood.           --Rogers.

            We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the
            generalization of facts.              --McCosh.

            If at great things thou wouldst arrive. --Milton.

   3. To come; said of time; as, the time arrived.

   4. To happen or occur. [Archaic]

            Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.
                                                  --Waller.