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.
- And thenceforth the words of the song that the bullfrog sang were, '_Come, come, in danger come_.'
- Oh, youve come, he said, addressing a tall old footman of his mothers, standing at the door; come here.
- She threw up her hands when she saw me; didn't ask me in, but hollered for Grandfather to come, and _come quick_, which he did.
- "Come, come, _come_!" broke in the oldest, sweeping the largest director aside with one finger as he pulled a chair to the table.
- If the committee has failed to come to a conclusion, strike out of the report all after and has and insert come to no conclusion thereon.
- Hear what our Saviour says on this subject; "it must needs be that offences come, but _woe unto that man through whom they come_" -- Witness some fulfilment of this declaration in the tremendous destruction of Jerusalem, occasioned by that most nefarious of all crimes the crucifixion of the Son of God.
- Hear what our Saviour says on this subject; "it must needs be that offences come, but _woe unto that man through whom they come_" -- Witness some fulfillment of this declaration in the tremendous destruction of Jerusalem, occasioned by that most nefarious of all crimes the crucifixion of the Son of God.
- The apostle Paul cautioned the Thessalonian brethren not to entertain the idea that the advent of Christ was then near at hand, for it could not come until after the great period of apostasy that he predicted; but here is a messenger now claiming that the "_hour of his judgment is come_" -- an event just at hand.
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