1. Someone, or something, recently coming to a place or joining a group.
2. An aircraft, train, or bus reaching an airport or station.
3. The reaching of a goal or objective as a result of some effort or a process.

The coming to, or reaching a place, from a distance, whether by water, as in its original sense, or by land.

4. Etymology: from Middle English arrivaile; from Old French arriver, "to arrive"; from Vulgar Latin arripare, "to touch the shore"; from ad-, "to" and Latin ripa, "shore, bank".