Arrived Arrive I Late əˈraɪv Time Home Safely

• i'll wait until they arrive.
• i was pleased to hear you arrived home safely.
• to arrive early/late for a meeting
• the police arrived to arrest him.

arrive

1. to get to a place, especially at the end of a journey
• I'll wait until they arrive.
• I was pleased to hear you arrived home safely.
• to arrive early/late for a meeting
• The police arrived to arrest him.
• She'll arrive in New York at noon.
• The train arrived at the station 20 minutes late.
• By the time I arrived on the scene, it was all over.
• We didn't arrive back at the hotel until very late.
2. to be brought to somebody
• A letter arrived for you this morning.
• Send your application to arrive by 31 October.
• We waited an hour for our lunch to arrive.
• The new product will arrive on supermarket shelves (= be available) early next year.
3. to happen or to come, especially when you have been waiting for it
• The wedding day finally arrived.
• The baby arrived (= was born) early.
4. somebody has become successful
• He knew he had arrived when he was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Extra Examples

• I should arrive in London tomorrow morning.
• My uncle arrived unannounced yesterday evening.
• The package failed to arrive.
• We are due to arrive in Rome at ten o’clock.
• We arrived at the hotel late.
• We finally arrived at our destination late that evening.
• We should arrive shortly.
• We should be arriving shortly.
• A package arrived for you this morning.
• A pile of letters had arrived on my desk.
• Ambulances quickly arrived at the scene.
• As autumn arrives the birds migrate south.
• As usual, my brother was the last to arrive.
• Let us know if you think you might arrive late.
• She likes to arrive unannounced.
• She’ll arrive in New York at around noon.
• Summer arrived early that year.
• The age of industrialization had arrived.
• The day of the wedding finally arrived.
• The lad has arrived as a Premiership goalkeeper.
• The moment had arrived. It was time to leave.
• The train is due to arrive any time now.
• They all arrived home safely.
• We didn’t arrive back at the hotel till very late.
• We were the first to arrive.
• What time did they arrive?
• Your application should arrive by 29 June.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they arrive
• he / she / it arrives
• past simple arrived
• past participle arrived
• -ing form arriving

Word Origin

• Middle English (in the sense ‘reach the shore after a voyage’): from Old French ariver, based on Latin ad- ‘to’ + ripa ‘shore’.