come

Meaning of come

noun
  1. Coming, arrival; approach.
  2. Semen
  3. Female ejaculatory discharge.
verb
  1. To move from further away to nearer to.
    She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]
  2. To arrive.
  3. To appear, to manifest itself.
    The pain in his leg comes and goes.
  4. (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
    She came to think of that country as her home.
  5. (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
    Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?
  6. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
    Which letter comes before Y?   Winter comes after autumn.
  7. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
    He came after a few minutes.
  8. (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
    One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.
  9. (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.
  10. (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
    He was a dream come true.
  11. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
    A new sports car doesn't come cheap.
  12. To carry through; to succeed in.
    You can't come any tricks here.
  13. Happen.
    This kind of accident comes when you are careless.
  14. (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
  15. (of grain) To germinate.
  16. 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
  1. 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
  1. An exclamation to express annoyance.
    Come come! Stop crying.  Come now! You must eat it.
  2. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
    Come come! You can do it.  Come now! It won't bite you.
noun
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  2. A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
  4. A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  5. A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  6. In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  7. A brief interval.

Information about come

Hyphenation of come

come

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • come is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

come synonyms

Meaning semen:

semen, seed, ejaculate

Meaning arrive:

arrive, get

Meaning follow:

follow

Meaning hail:

hail

Meaning derive:

derive, descend

Meaning fall:

fall

Meaning total:

total, number, amount

Meaning add up:

amount

Meaning occur:

occur

Meaning do:

do, fare

Meaning :

virgula, virgule

come antonyms

Meaning :

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

Translation of come

Words that rhyme with come

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