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Definitions of come

1. add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

2. develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

3. reach a destination; arrive by movement or by making progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "He got into college"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

4. come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His breath came hard" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

5. come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

6. be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

7. happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

8. reach a state, relation, or condition; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I came to realize the true meaning of life" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

9. have a certain priority; "My family comes first" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

10. come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

11. cover a certain distance; "She came a long way" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

12. move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

13. experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too upset" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

14. to be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine"; "Understanding comes from experience" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

15. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

16. proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a long way" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

17. be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

18. reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" Wordnet Dictionary DB

19. be received; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda" Wordnet Dictionary DB

20. extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles" Wordnet Dictionary DB

21. come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" Wordnet Dictionary DB

22. enter or assume a condition, relation, use, or position; "He came into contact with a terrorist group"; "The shoes came untied"; "I came to see his point of view"; "her face went red with anger"; "The knot came loose"; "Your wish will come true" Wordnet Dictionary DB

23. exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came the student from France" Wordnet Dictionary DB

24. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go. Newage Dictionary DB

25. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive. Newage Dictionary DB

26. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance. Newage Dictionary DB

27. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another. Newage Dictionary DB

28. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear. Newage Dictionary DB

29. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come untied. Newage Dictionary DB

30. To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here. Newage Dictionary DB

31. Coming. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

32. To move towards; draw near; reach; arrive; be present; to issue from a source; become; occur as a result; approach in kind or quality; happen. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

33. Came. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

34. Come. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

35. To move toward this place (the opp. of go): to draw near: to arrive at a certain state or condition: to issue: to happen:-pr.p. coming; pa.t. came; pa.p. come. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.

36. To move toward; approach; arrive. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

37. To move to or toward the speaker; draw nigh; arrive; happen. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

38. Comer. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

39. To move to this place, draw near, or approach; to arrive; to advance or move into view; to appear; to arrive at some state or condition; to happen, or fall out; to issue. Come, in the imperative, excites attention, or invites to motion or joint action. To come about, to change or come round; to come to pass. To come at, to reach; to attain. To come away, to leave; to sprout. To come back, to return. To come by, to pass near; to obtain or acquire. To come down, to descend; to be humbled. To come home, to affect deeply. To come in, to enter; to yield; to become fashionable; to enter as an ingredient or part of a composition; to accrue. To come in for, to arrive in time to participate in. To come into, to join with; to comply with; to acquire. Tom come near, to approach. To come off, to escape; to get free; to take place. To come on, to advance; to thrive. To come over, to pass above or across; to pass from one party, side, or army, to another; to occur to; to rise in distillation. To come out, to depart or proceed from; to become public; to be introduced into society; to appear after being clouded; to turn out. To come out of, to issue forth, as from confinement; to proceed or depart from. To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose. To come round, to change; to recover; to circumvent. To come short, to fail. To come to, to consent or yield; to amount to; to recover, as from a swoon. To come to himself, to recover his sense. To come together, to meet or assemble. To come to pass, to happen. To come up, to ascend; to spring; to come into use; to slacken, as a rope, &c,. To come up to, to approach near; to amount to. To come up with, to overtake. To come upon, to fall on; to attack. To come, in future, as in the world to come. Come, come, repeated, expresses haste or remonstrance. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

40. To draw near; to move towards; to arrive or reach; to happen or fall out; to advance and arrive at some state or condition; to sprout; to spring. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

41. kum (Shak.), a shortening of BECOME. gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

42. kum, v.i. to move toward this place (the opposite of go): to draw near: to arrive at a certain state or condition: to issue: to happen: (Shak.) to yield; to become: to turn out:--pr.p. com'ing; pa.t. came; pa.p. come.--n. COM'ING.--adj. COME'-AT-ABLE, accessible; COME ABOUT, to happen; COME ACROSS, to meet; COME AND GO, to have freedom of action (n. passage to and fro); COME AT, to reach; COME BY, to come near: to pass: to obtain; COME DOWN, to descend: to be reduced (n. a fall); COME DOWN UPON, to be severe with; COME DOWN WITH, to pay down; COME HIGH, or LOW, to cost much, or little; COME HOME, to return to one's house: to touch one's interest or feelings closely (with to): (naut.) to drag or slip through the ground--of an anchor; COME IN, to enter: to give in, to yield: (fencing) to get within the opponent's guard (Shak.); COME IN FOR, to have reason to expect or to have a share; COME IT STRONG (coll.), to do or say too much; COME OF, to descend from: become of; COME OFF, to come away: to turn out: to escape (n. a conclusion: an evasion of duty); COME OUT, to result: to be published: to become evident: to enter society; COME OUT WITH, to let be known: to tell; COME OVER (Shak.), surpass: to befall: (slang) to overreach; COME O' WILL, something that comes of its own accord: an illegitimate child; COME ROUND, to come by a circuitous path: to happen in due course: to change: to recover from a faint; COME SHORT, to fail; COME SHORT OF, to fail to accomplish; COME TO, to obtain: to amount to: to recover consciousness or sanity; COME TO GRIEF, to meet with disaster or ill-fortune; COME TO PASS, to happen; COME TRUE, to be found to have been true; COME UNDER, to be included under; COME UPON, to attack: to affect; to hold answerable: to meet; COME UP WITH, to overtake: reach.--ALL COMERS, any one that likes. [A.S. cuman; Ger. kommen, to come.] gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

43. (came, come). Start, move, arrive, towards or at a point, time, or result (often not specified because obvious, while point of departure, if it matters, is always specified; cf. Go; c. into world, be born; c. to an end, cease; c. SHORT; c. to a point, taper; c. to blows, fight; c. home to, be realized by; c. & go, pass to& fro, pay brief visit, be transitory; light c. light go, what is easily won is soon lost; coming nineteen, in nineteenth year; two years c. Christmas, including time from now to Christmas); be brought (the dinner came; c. under notice, before judge); fall, land, on (came on my head); move relatively by motion of beholder &c. towards one (c. into sight, to one\'s knowledge, in one\'s way; c. to light, be revealed); reach point with hand, instrument, or missile; occur, fall to lot of, (comes on such a page; one comes before, after, another; c. into one\'s head; the work, ill luck, comes to me); happen (how comes it that-?; to c. pred. adj., future; for a year to c.; the to-c., the future; c. what may, whatever happens); become present from future (c. to pass; the time will c. when); spring of, be the result of, (that\'s what comes of grumbling; c. of noble parents); enter, be brought, into (collision, play, prominence; c. to harm, be injured); amount to (comes to 2/6; it comes to this, that-, is as much as to say that); take form (the butter will not c.); find oneself under compulsion or in a position to (have c. to believe, has c. to be used); (with cogn. obj.) traverse, accomplish, (have c. 3 miles, a long way); play a part (slang; c. the bully over; c. it strong, show vigour; c. it too strong, overdo something, exaggerate); become, get to be, prove, (string comes untied, things c. right, he come alive; comes expensive, easy, true, natural); (imperat. as exclamation) now then (encouraging), think again, don\'t be hasty. C. about, happen; c. across, meet with; c. along, (colloq.) make haste; c. at, reach, discover, get access to; c. away, get detached; c. back, recur to memory; c. by, (prep.) obtain, (adv.) pass; c. down, extend downwards to, be handed down by tradition, fall, be humbled (esp. in the world, lose caste); c. down upon, rebuke, punish, exact reparation from; c. down with, pay (money); c. forward, present oneself, answer appeal; c. in, enter house or room, begin innings, take such a place in race &c. (c. in third), be elected, come to power, be received as income, become seasonable or fashionable, serve a purpose (esp. c. in useful), find a place (where does the joke c. in?; where do I c. in?, how are my interests advanced?); c. in for, get share of, get; c. into, receive possession of; c. near doing, narrowly escape or fail; c. off, be detached, extricate oneself from contest &c. in such state (with flying COLOURS, badly), be accomplished, fulfilled; c. on, (prep.) =c. upon, (adv.) continue coming, advance esp. to attack, progress, thrive, supervene (of wind, storm, disease), arise to be discussed, appear on stage, begin to bowl, (imperat.) follow me, I defy you; c. out, go on strike, emerge from examination &c. with such success, emerge from clouds, be found out, be solved, show itself (of photograph, smallpox, arrogance), be published (comes out on Saturdays), make debut on stage or in society; c. out with, utter; c. over, (prep.) master as an influence, (adv.) c. from some distance or across obstacle (came over with the Conqueror, over from London to see us), change sides or opinion; c. round, look in for casual visit, recover from ill temper, swoon, &c.; c. to, (prep.) inherit, return to (oneself, one\'s senses from fainting-fit or from folly), (adv.) cease moving, revive; c. under, be classed as or among, be subjected to (influence); c. up, join university, approach person for talk, get abreast with, spring out of ground, become fashionable, be mooted, be equal to standard &c., (imperat., to horse) go faster; c. upon, attack by surprise, strike or lay hold of (mind), make demand on, be a burden to, meet by chance with. [old English] Concise Oxford Dictionary

44. C.-&-go, passing to& fro; c.-down, downfall, degradation. Concise Oxford Dictionary

45. come a sneeze (colloq.), sneeze, bring off a sneeze; compulsory insurance &c. has c. to stay, opposition to it is useless. Concise Oxford Dictionary

46. Be quick, make no delay. Complete Dictionary

47. A particle of reconciliation. Come, come, at all I laugh he laughs no doubt. Complete Dictionary