come

verb comes · coming · came · come

1. intransitive To move nearer to the point of perspective. She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]
2. intransitive To move toward the speaker. I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
3. intransitive To move toward the listener. Hold on, I'll come in a second.
4. intransitive To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence. No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
5. intransitive, in subordinate clauses and gerunds To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause. King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
6. intransitive To move toward an unstated agent. The butler should come when called.
7. intransitive To arrive. Late at night comes Mr. Hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from Chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon "The Royal James," "Oake," and "London," burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships: […]
8. intransitive To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting. The pain in his leg comes and goes.
9. with an infinitive To begin (to have an opinion or feeling). We came to believe that he was not so innocent after all.
10. with an infinitive To do something by chance or unintentionally. Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?
11. intransitive To take a position relative to something else in a sequence. Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.
12. intransitive, often, slang, vulgar To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate. She came after a few minutes.
13. intransitive, of milk To become butter by being churned. when butter does refuse to come
14. copulative, figuratively To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment. They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect.
15. figuratively, 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.
16. archaic, copulative To become, to turn out to be (often in set phrases and certain collocations). Near-synonyms: become, get, go, turn, fall, grow, wax

    Similar: become, get, go, turn, fall, grow, wax

17. intransitive To be supplied, or made available; to exist. He's as tough as they come.
18. slang To carry through; to succeed in. You can't come any tricks here.
19. intransitive To happen. This kind of accident comes when you are careless.

    Similar: come about, occur, take place

20. intransitive, with from or sometimes of To have a certain social background. While Kate Roberts came from a poor background and, later in life, in the post-Second World War period suffered from severe money shortages, in the early 1930s, she and her husband must have counted themselves relatively well off, particularly in comparison with their neighbours in Tonypandy.
21. intransitive, with from or sometimes of To be or have been a resident or native. Where did you come from?
22. intransitive, with from or sometimes of To have been brought up by or employed by. She comes from a good family.
23. intransitive, with from or sometimes of To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from). The river comes from Bear Lake.
24. intransitive, of grain To germinate.
25. informal, transitive To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of. Don’t come the innocent victim. We all know who’s to blame here.

Opposite: leave, go, depart, exit, withdraw, retreat, flee

noun coom

1. obsolete, uncountable Coming, arrival; approach. “If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
2. slang, uncountable, vulgar Semen. When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.
3. slang, uncountable, vulgar Female ejaculatory discharge.

preposition coom

1. Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs. Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.

interjection coom

1. dated, formal An exclamation to express annoyance. Come, come! Stop crying.
2. dated, formal An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. Come, come! You can do it.

noun comes

1. alternative, obsolete Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon. comma in its medieval use as a middot serving as a form of colon There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.