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
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
"Come with me to the Casbah"
Same sense: come up
reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
Same sense: get, arrive
come to pass; arrive, as in due course
"Dawn comes early in June"
reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
"come into contact with a terrorist group"
to be the product or result
"Melons come from a vine"
Same sense: follow
be found or available
"These shoes come in three colors"
come forth
Same sense: issue forth
be a native of
Same sense: hail
extend or reach
"The sleeves come to your knuckles"
exist or occur in a certain point in a series
cover a certain distance
come under, be classified or included
"This comes under a new heading"
Same sense: fall
happen as a result
"Nothing good will come of this"
add up in number or quantity
to measure up to in kind or quality
Same sense: amount, add up
be received
Same sense: come in
come to one's mind; suggest itself
Same sense: occur
come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
"he comes from humble origins"
Same sense: derive, descend
proceed or get along
"He's come a long way"
Same sense: do, make out, get along, fare
experience orgasm
"she could not come because she was too upset"
have a certain priority
"My family comes first"
Come as a noun
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
- come up
- get definition
- arrive
- follow definition
- issue forth
- hail
- fall definition
- number definition
- total definition
- amount definition
- add up
- come in
- occur
- derive
- descend
- do
- make out
- get along
- fare
- seed
- cum
- semen
- seminal fluid
- ejaculate
Opposite: go.
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
- from
- some
- become
- income
- dumb
- mum
- outcome
- sum
- overcome
- um
- drum
- thumb
COME in word games
- Scrabble
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Anagrams
- 0
Is COME a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check COME in the word checker, or unscramble COME to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.