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Arrived vs Happened - What's the difference?

arrived | happened |

As verbs the difference between arrived and happened

is that arrived is (arrive) while happened is (happen).

arrived

English

Verb

(head)
  • (arrive)

  • arrive

    English

    Verb

  • (copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
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  • To obtain a level of success or fame.
  • * 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.
  • To come; said of time.
  • The time has arrived for us to depart.
  • To happen or occur.
  • * Waller
  • Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
  • (archaic) To reach; to come to.
  • * Milton
  • Ere he arrive the happy isle.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
  • * Tennyson
  • Arrive at last the blessed goal.
  • (obsolete) To bring to shore.
  • * Chapman
  • and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

    Usage notes

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

    Antonyms

    * depart

    happened

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hapned

    Verb

    (head)
  • (happen)
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