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arrove

Syllables: ar·roveUK/əˈɹəʊv/US/əˈɹoʊv/

arrove is the simple past of arrive.

arrove is the alternative form of arroba.

Meaning of arrive

Verb

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

  1. (copulative, intransitive) To reach; to get to a certain place.
    • We've just arrived at the hotel to book in, so we should arrive at Mike’s in time for lunch.
    Synonyms:
    fetch up
  2. (intransitive) To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed.
    • He had finally arrived on Broadway.
  3. (intransitive) To come; said of time.
    • The time has arrived for us to depart.
  4. (intransitive) To happen or occur.
    • Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.1666, Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter
  5. (Ireland, UK, intransitive, often, slang, vulgar) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  6. (archaic, transitive) To reach; to come to.
    • Ere he arrive the happy isle.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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Meaning of arroba

Noun

arroba (plural arrobas)

  1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of mass, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 11.5 kilograms.
  2. (historical) A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 14.7 kilograms.
  3. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of liquid measure, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 15 liters.

Forms of arrove

pluralarroves

Origin of arrove

By analogy with class 1 strong verbs such as drive : drove; compare nearly standard American English dove as the past tense of dive.

Words that rhyme with arrove

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Questions about arrove

What is arrove the simple past of?
Arrove is the simple past of arrive.
How do you pronounce arrove?
Arrove is pronounced /əˈɹoʊv/ (US).

Words near arrove in the dictionary

  1. arrosions
  2. arrosive
  3. arrotolata
  4. Arrouet
  5. Arrouets
  6. arrove
  7. arroves
  8. Arrovian
  9. arrow
  10. arrow arum
  11. arrow bag

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: arrove (page history and authors); arrive (page history and authors); arroba (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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