Synonyms for arrive
əˈraɪvar·rive

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1. arriveverb

   Antonyms:
   depart

2. arriveverb

   Antonyms:
   depart

3. arriveverb

   We arrived and booked in.

   Antonyms:
   depart

4. arriveverb

   He had finally arrived on Broadway.

   Antonyms:
   depart

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1. arrive

   To reach, in the sense here considered, is to come to by motion or progress. Attain is now oftenest used of abstract relations; as, to attain success. When applied to concrete matters, it commonly signifies the overcoming of hindrance and difficulty; as, the storm-beaten ship at length attained the harbor. Come is the general word for moving to or toward the place where the speaker or writer is or supposes himself to be. To reach is to come to from a distance that is actually or relatively considerable; to stretch the journey, so to speak, across the distance, as, in its original meaning, one reaches an object by stretching out the hand. To gain is to reach or attain something eagerly sought; the wearied swimmer reaches or gains the shore. One comes in from his garden; he reaches home from a journey. To arrive is to come to a destination, to reach a point intended or proposed. The European steamer arrives in port, or reaches the harbor; the dismantled wreck drifts ashore, or comes to land. Compare ATTAIN.

   Synonyms:
   attain, come to, enter, gain, get to, land, reach

   Antonyms:
   depart, embark, go, go away, leave, set out, set sail, start, weigh anchor

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1. arrive

   Synonyms:
   reach, attain, come to, enter, get to land

   Antonyms:
   embark, depart, start

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. arrive, get, comeverb

   reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

   "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

   Synonyms:
   take, come in, mystify, make, number, come up, experience, develop, draw, stupefy, have, occur, become, sustain, total, receive, scram, add up, do, amaze, stimulate, sire, descend, drive, engender, go, fix, pay back, get under one's skin, suffer, stick, set about, get down, derive, incur, contract, bring forth, grow, amount, dumbfound, beat, issue forth, make out, arrest, fetch, bring, bewilder, go far, mother, father, buzz off, catch, let, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, get, generate, capture, find, baffle, produce, follow, start out, pose, vex, aim, induce, perplex, make it, gravel, begin, start, hail, commence, fall, set out, convey, acquire, come, get in, pay off, bugger off, cause, fare, get along, nonplus

   Antonyms:
   go forth, go away, leave

2. arrive, make it, get in, go farverb

   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!"

   Synonyms:
   go into, enter, go far, get into, go in, go deep, move in, pull in, come through, pull round, get, pull through, come, come in, pass, move into, survive, get in, make it, draw in

   Antonyms:
   leave, go forth, go away

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1. • Succeed

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1. arriveverb

   Synonyms:
   come, get here, reach this place

2. arriveverb

   Synonyms:
   get there, reach that place

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1. List of paraphrases for "arrive":

   arrival, happen, reach, come, achieve, arrives, arriving, get, find

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1. Kasie Hunt:

   Grey is already showing us her independent streak. We were expecting her to arrive via a scheduled C section on Thursday morning, she had other plans!

2. Matthew Smith:

   The boat should arrive in Malaysian waters in the next week, assuming it doesn't come under distress or make landfall in Thailand, this is a tremendously dangerous journey.

3. Kim Jong:

   It has not been easy to come to this point. For us the past has been holding us back, and old practices and prejudices have been covering our eyes and ears, but we have been able to overcome everything to arrive here today.

4. Luke Edwards:

   With more sensors expected to arrive on the next generation of mobiles and wearables, companies have even more data points to track and recognize individuals, this should mean a complex enough biometric security system isn't far off from replacing pin codes, passwords and even keys.

5. William Ezekiel:

   Right now, we are still working on the issue and probably by tomorrow the first vice president will arrive in Juba, if it turns out that the Americans are not ready to facilitate him, nevertheless, the government may take over.