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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To advance toward the speaker or toward a specified place; approach.
- intransitive verb To advance in a specified manner.
- intransitive verb To make progress; advance.
- intransitive verb To fare.
- intransitive verb To reach a particular point in a series or as a result of orderly progression.
- intransitive verb To arrive, as in due course.
- intransitive verb To move into view; appear.
- intransitive verb To occur in time; take place.
- intransitive verb To arrive at a particular result or end.
- intransitive verb To arrive at or reach a particular state or condition.
- intransitive verb To move or be brought to a particular position.
- intransitive verb To extend; reach.
- intransitive verb To have priority; rank.
- intransitive verb To happen as a result.
- intransitive verb To fall to one.
- intransitive verb To occur in the mind.
- intransitive verb To issue forth.
- intransitive verb To be derived; originate.
- intransitive verb To be descended.
- intransitive verb To be within a given range or spectrum of reference or application.
- intransitive verb To be a native or resident.
- intransitive verb To add up to a certain amount.
- intransitive verb To become.
- intransitive verb To turn out to be.
- intransitive verb To be available or obtainable.
- intransitive verb Vulgar Slang To experience orgasm.
- noun Semen ejaculated during orgasm.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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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 Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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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.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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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 Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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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.
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Oh, youve come, he said, addressing a tall old footman of his mothers, standing at the door; come here.
Chapter XVII. Part I 1917
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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.
9. Committees and Boards. 55. Committee of the Whole Henry Martyn 1915
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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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And thenceforth the words of the song that the bullfrog sang were, '_Come, come, in danger come_.'
Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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"Come, come, _come_!" broke in the oldest, sweeping the largest director aside with one finger as he pulled a chair to the table.
Bunker Bean Harry Leon Wilson 1903
Related Words
synonyms (266)
Words with the same meaning
- accomplish
- accost
- achieve
- achieve satisfaction
- acquire
- add up
- add up to
- advance
- affect
- aggregate
- amount to
- anticipate
- appear
- approach
- appropinquate
- approximate
- arise
- arrive
- arrive at
- arrive in
- assault
- attack
- attain
- attain to
- await
- awaken
- bail out
- be
- be destined
- be fated
- be found
- be imminent
- be involved
- be met with
- be realized
- be received
- be revealed
- be to be
- be to come
- bear down on
- bear down upon
- bear up
- bechance
- become manifest
- become visible
- befall
- betide
- blame
- blow in
- bob up
- break
- break cover
- break forth
- bump into
- burst forth
- catch
- chance
- charge
- check in
- clean
- climax
- clock in
- close
- close in
- close with
- come about
- come across
- come along
- come apart
- come around
- come at
- come by
- come clean
- come closer
- come down
- come down on
- come down with
- come forth
- come forward
- come in
- come in sight
- come near
- come off
- come on
- come out
- come over
- come through
- come to
- come to hand
- come to light
- come to pass
- come true
- come up
- coming
- communicate
- concern
- conclude
- confront
- contract
- criticize
- crop out
- crop up
- crumble
- debouch
- descend on
- descend upon
- develop
- discover
- disembogue
- disintegrate
- do
- draw near
- draw nigh
- draw on
- earn
- effuse
- ejaculate
- emanate
- emerge
- encounter
- end
- enter
- erupt
- eventuate
- expect
- extrude
- fade in
- fall
- fall out
- fall to pieces
- fare
- fetch
- fetch up at
- find
- finish
- fly at
- foresee
- foretell
- gain
- gain upon
- get
- get about
- get around
- get better
- get hold of
- get in
- get off
- get out
- get there
- get to
- get well
- give up
- go about
- go for
- go off
- go over
- grow
- hap
- happen
- happen along
- happen by chance
- hazard
- heave in sight
- hit
- hit town
- hope
- influence
- involve
- issue
- issue forth
- jump out
- lay hold of
- leak out
- lie ahead
- look for
- look forth
- look forward to
- loom
- make
- make for
- make it
- materialize
- move
- move along
- narrow the gap
- near
- nigh
- not fail
- number
- obtain
- occur
- outcrop
- pass
- pass off
- pay up
- peep out
- penetrate
- plan
- plot
- pop up
- possess
- pounce on
- pounce upon
- predict
- premiere
- present itself
- procure
- progress
- project
- prophesy
- protrude
- prove
- proximate
- pull in
- punch in
- reach
- reach orgasm
- rear its head
- rebuke
- regard
- relate to
- reprimand
- revile
- revive
- ring in
- rise
- roll in
- run across
- run into
- run to
- rush at
- sally
- sally forth
- secure
- see the light
- separate
- settle
- show
- show up
- sidle up to
- sign in
- sink in
- step up
- stream forth
- strike the eye
- stumble on
- stumble upon
- submit
- succeed
- succumb to
- surface
- tack
- take place
- take possession of
- terminate
- threaten
- thrive
- time in
- total
- transpire
- turn out
- turn up
- visit
- wake up
- win
- yield
equivalents (1)
Other words for 'come'
hypernyms (28)
Words that are more generic or abstract
hyponyms (18)
Words more specific or concrete
same context (40)
Words that are found in similar contexts
variants (1)
Variants
cross-references (77)
Cross-references
- accrue
- appear
- arise
- arrive
- become
- cam'st
- chalk
- come on!
- come your ways
- cum
- cut and come again
- derive
- descend
- emanate
- follow
- happen
- ill
- immigrate
- kingdom come
- nigh
- reach
- result
- to come
- to come about
- to come across
- to come amiss
- to come and go
- to come around
- to come at
- to come away
- to come by
- to come down
- to come down with
- to come down with the dust
- to come high
- to come home
- to come in
- to come in clipping-time
- to come in for
- to come in unto
- to come in with
- to come into
- to come into one's head
- to come of
- to come of age
- to come off
- to come off roundly
- to come on
- to come on one for
- to come out
- to come out of
- to come out with
- to come over. a
- to come round
- to come short
- to come short of
- to come to anchor
- to come to blows
- to come to close quarters
- to come to grief
- to come to nothing
- to come to one's self
- to come to pass
- to come to the front
- to come to time
- to come to. a
- to come true
- to come up
- to come up the capstan
- to come up to the mark
- to come up with
- to come upon
- to come upon the town
- upon
- when all comes to all
- yield
- ‐ to come up to
qroqqa commented on the word come
This is now a preposition in constructions such as 'come Thursday', 'come Easter'; in origin a subjunctive use. To be distinguished from the fossilized subjunctive in 'come hell or high water', which is still a clause; 'come Thursday' no longer is.
August 6, 2008