different between arrive vs nonarrival

English

Etymology

From Middle English arriven, ariven, a borrowing from Old French ariver, from Late Latin *arr?pare, from Latin ad + r?pa (“shore”). Displaced native oncome, tocome.

For the sense-derivation, compare Old English ?elandian, ?elendan, lendan (“to arrive at land; land”) > Middle English alenden, landen (“to arrive; arrive at shore; land”) > English land.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-r?v?, IPA^(key): /???a?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Verb

arrive (third-person singular simple present arrives, present participle arriving, simple past and past participle arrived)

1. (intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
2. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
   • 2002, Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)

     Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.

3. (intransitive) To come; said of time.

   The time has arrived for us to depart.

4. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
   • 1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter

     Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.

5. (transitive, archaic) To reach; to come to.
   • Arrive at last the blessed goal.

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To bring to shore.
   • 1618, George Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo

     and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

Usage notes

• Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.

Antonyms

• depart

Related terms

• arrival

Translations

Anagrams

• Rivera, Vierra, ravier, varier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.?iv/

Verb

arrive

1. first-person singular present indicative of arriver
2. third-person singular present indicative of arriver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of arriver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of arriver
5. second-person singular imperative of arriver

Anagrams

• rivera
• varier
• verrai
• virera

English

Etymology

non- +? arrival

Noun

nonarrival (countable and uncountable, plural nonarrivals)

1. Failure to arrive.
   • 1958, Richard F. Newcomb, Abandon ship!: Death of the U.S.S. Indianapolis

     The nonarrival of a ship being a common thing, it is not a matter of making a decision of what to do in each case, but of following an over-all rule...

Alternative forms

• non-arrival