come

/kʌm/

noun

Meaning

verb

Meaning

To move from further away to nearer to.
"She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]"
To arrive.
To appear, to manifest itself.
"The pain in his leg comes and goes."
(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
"She came to think of that country as her home."
(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
"Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?"
To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
"Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn."
To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
"He came after a few minutes."
(with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
"One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart."
(with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
"He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits."
(fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
"He was a dream come true."
To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
"A new sports car doesn't come cheap."
To carry through; to succeed in.
"You can't come any tricks here."
Happen.
"This kind of accident comes when you are careless."
(with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
(of grain) To germinate.
To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
"Don't come the innocent victim. We all know who's to blame here."

preposition

Meaning

Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
"Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on."

interjection

Meaning

An exclamation to express annoyance.
"Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it."
An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
"Come come! You can do it. Come now! It won't bite you."