English Dictionary
Definition arrive in British English
arrive
verb
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.
These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
[intransitive]
verb
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
The verb arrive is never used with the preposition to:
✗ He meets them at an inn before they arrive to the house.
✓ He meets them at an inn before they arrive at the house.
Arrive can be used with at or in:
▪ you arrive at a building (such as an airport or restaurant)
…the scene in which Robyn arrives at the factory for the first time
▪ you arrive in a geographical location (such as a city or country)
A delegation of senior French ministers will arrive in London today.
▪ you can also use arrive at in a figurative way, meaning ‘to reach a particular goal or point in a process’
Quite independently, we all arrived at the same conclusion.
The court will arrive at a final decision next week.
Note that with the word home, no preposition is used:
✗ When they finally arrive at home, all they want to do is sleep.
✓ When they finally arrive home, all they want to do is sleep.
if information arrives, it is published or heard somewhere
Reports are just arriving about the earthquake in Mexico.
to come to a place in order to live there permanently
Society changed forever when television arrived.
