come

IPA: kˈʌm

noun

  • (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
  • (vulgar, slang) Semen
  • (vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
  • (typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.

verb

  • (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
  • To move towards the speaker.
  • To move towards the listener.
  • To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.
  • (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.
  • To move towards an unstated agent.
  • (intransitive) To arrive.
  • (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
  • (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  • (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  • (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  • (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  • (intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.
  • (copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  • (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  • (copulative, fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
  • (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  • (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
  • (intransitive) Happen.
  • (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  • To have a certain social background.
  • To be or have been a resident or native.
  • To have been brought up by or employed by.
  • To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
  • (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
  • (transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
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Examples of "come" in Sentences

  • Soon, mice come along and gnaw through the ropes.
  • He that shall come, will come, and will not tarry.
  • Then along comes Passport Canada to reconfirm all the prejudices.
  • In summer time a lot of people come to sunbathe along its beaches.
  • New editors come along and run amuck over other people's careful work.
  • The album increases in heaviness the further you come along the tracklist.
  • I'm glad I overslept and got to come along late and read all that silliness
  • Also, a short block will let the next person to come along work unencumbered.

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