arrive

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To reach a destination.
2. v. To come at length; take place: The day of reckoning has arrived.
3. v. To achieve success or recognition: He had finally arrived as a designer.
4. arrive at To reach through effort or a process: arrive at a decision after much thought.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bring (a ship or its passengers) to shore; land.
2. To reach.
3. To come to; happen to.
4. To come to or reach a certain point in the course of travel: with at: as, we arrived at Havre-de-Grace.
5. To reach a point or stage by progressive advance; attain to a certain result or state: with at, formerly sometimes with to: as, to arrive at an unusual degree of excellence; to arrive at a conclusion.
6. To happen or occur: with to.
7. n. Arrival.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive, copulative to reach
2. v. intransitive, copulative to get to a certain place
3. v. intransitive to obtain a level of success or fame.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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.
2. v. To reach a point by progressive motion; to gain or compass an object by effort, practice, study, inquiry, reasoning, or experiment.
3. v. To come; said of time.
4. v. Archaic To happen or occur.
5. v. obsolete To bring to shore.
6. v. Archaic To reach; to come to.
7. n. obsolete Arrival.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
2. v. succeed in a big way; get to the top