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Come definition

Come is a verb meaning "move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody." It has 22 meanings, as a verb and a noun, listed below with example sentences.

Part of speech
verb, noun
Syllables
1
Letters
4
How common
Everyday word

Come as a verb

  1. move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

    "Come with me to the Casbah"

    Same sense: come up

  2. reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

    Same sense: get, arrive

  3. come to pass; arrive, as in due course

    "Dawn comes early in June"

  4. reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position

    "come into contact with a terrorist group"

  5. to be the product or result

    "Melons come from a vine"

    Same sense: follow

  6. be found or available

    "These shoes come in three colors"

  7. come forth

    Same sense: issue forth

  8. be a native of

    Same sense: hail

  9. extend or reach

    "The sleeves come to your knuckles"

  10. exist or occur in a certain point in a series

  11. cover a certain distance

  12. come under, be classified or included

    "This comes under a new heading"

    Same sense: fall

  13. happen as a result

    "Nothing good will come of this"

  14. add up in number or quantity

    Same sense: number, total, amount, add up

  15. to measure up to in kind or quality

    Same sense: amount, add up

  16. be received

    Same sense: come in

  17. come to one's mind; suggest itself

    Same sense: occur

  18. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example

    "he comes from humble origins"

    Same sense: derive, descend

  19. proceed or get along

    "He's come a long way"

    Same sense: do, make out, get along, fare

  20. experience orgasm

    "she could not come because she was too upset"

  21. have a certain priority

    "My family comes first"

Come as a noun

  1. the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

    Same sense: seed, cum, semen, seminal fluid, ejaculate

Synonyms and antonyms

Opposite: go.

All synonyms of come, sense by sense

How to say come

Come has 1 syllable and rhymes with from. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with come

All 34 words that rhyme with come

COME in word games

Scrabble
8
Words With Friends
10
Anagrams
0

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Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.