arrived

verb

past tense of arrive
1
as in came
to get to a destination when will the guests arrive?

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms
2
as in flourished
to reach a desired level of accomplishment the actress knew she'd arrived when she received an Oscar nomination

Synonyms & Similar Words

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of arrived Simone Biles Simone Biles arrived with more than 11 carats at her ears. — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 7 July 2026 When the day finally arrived, Unseld-Hopkins says the experience left a lasting mark on her. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026 Khamenei’s body arrived late Tuesday in Najaf, Iraq, where it was received by senior officials from both countries. — Arkansas Online, 7 July 2026 One of Mushenko’s passengers, Oleksii Maksymov, was dead when deputies and paramedics arrived, according to the sheriff’s office. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026 Both films came from digital-native storytellers in their 20s who arrived with sizable online followings already attached. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026 After playing 50 games over the 2023 and 2024 seasons, Caminero arrived for good last season. — Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 Several trucks arrived with coffins throughout Monday, according to the cemetery worker who spoke to CNN. — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 7 July 2026 Modi arrived in Jakarta on Monday afternoon and received a warm welcome, with his plane escorted into Indonesian airspace by three fighter jets. — ABC News, 7 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arrived
  1. came
  2. flourished
  3. appeared
  4. succeeded
  5. landed
  6. thrived
  7. prospered
Verb
  • That came just a few days after news broke that Palantir had secured a $10 billion contract from the US Army over the next decade.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • All five of Bednar’s outs came via strikeout on Wednesday.
    — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 7 Aug. 2025
Definition of came
Verb
  • As for the floral details, the look first flourished in the 1960s and '70s, and fashion has never been one to resist a revival.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 2 July 2026
  • Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Definition of flourished
Verb
  • Khamenei’s son and successor Mojtaba has still not appeared publicly since his father’s killing.
    — Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • As the order to evacuate was played over loudspeakers on the National Mall, some people appeared to be standing in place, talking with those around them and not exiting the area, while others were walking toward exits.
    — Steven Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of appeared
Verb
  • He was succeeded by Sunnei founders Loris Messina and Simone Rizzo.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 7 July 2026
  • While Louis van Gaal famously succeeded with a similar move in 2014, such substitutions are often viewed as gimmicks, as taker execution remains paramount.
    — Chris Evans, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of succeeded
Verb
  • The plane landed upright in the water and was being towed back to a dock, the FDNY said.
    — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • Rafael Devers hit two homers, the latter being a 463-foot shot that landed in the upper deck.
    — Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 July 2026
Definition of landed
Verb
  • Most of the show's cast have thrived after House's conclusion in 2012, though millions of fans still associate them with the medical drama, even all these years later.
    — Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 5 July 2026
  • Unearthed in 1986, archaeologists believe that the site was the ancient Greco-Roman port city of Leukaspis on the Mediterranean, which was built in the second denture and thrived until the fourth century, the ministry said.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
Definition of thrived
Verb
  • The cyclical reality awaiting ‘naive capital’ Allianz is far from the only insurer to have prospered through recent upheavals.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 July 2026
  • For four decades the appellation prospered on a reputation for concentration and the firm tannic grip of Syrah and Grenache grown in its famous schist soils.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Definition of prospered

Browse Nearby Words

arrivé
arrived
arrives
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Arrived.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrived. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

Copy Citation

More from Merriam-Webster on arrived

Nglish: Translation of arrived for Spanish Speakers

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

Commonly Misspelled Words

How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Longest Long Words List

One-Word Oxymorons: Bittersweet, Spendthrift, and More

Ten Words Ending with a Silent ‘T’

The Words of the Week - Jul 10
See More

Popular

See More

Is that lie 'bald-faced' or 'bold-faced'?

14 Phobias You Probably Haven't Heard Of

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
banana-mirrored
Contradictory Words Quiz Pick out which word means one thing…and the opp...
See All