come

1. 1

   To move nearer to the point of perspective.intransitive

   • She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]
2. 2

   To move nearer to the point of perspective.; To move toward the speaker.intransitive

   • I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.
   • Stop dawdling and come here!
3. 3

   To move nearer to the point of perspective.; To move toward the listener.intransitive

   • Hold on, I'll come in a second.
   • You should ask the doctor to come to your house.
4. 4

   To move nearer to the point of perspective.; To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.intransitive

   • No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.
   • Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.
5. 5

   To move nearer to the point of perspective.; To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.intransitive

   • King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.
   • He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.
6. 6

   To move nearer to the point of perspective.; To move toward an unstated agent.intransitive

   • The butler should come when called.
7. 7

   To arrive.intransitive

   • 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: […]
   • Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
8. 8

   To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.intransitive

   • The pain in his leg comes and goes.
   • The news came as a shock.
9. 9

   To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).

   • We came to believe that he was not so innocent after all.
   • She came to think of that country as her home.
10. 10

    To do something by chance or unintentionally.

    • Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?

ant. leave · go · depart · exit · withdraw · retreat · flee

1. 1

   Coming, arrival; approach.obsoleteuncountable

   • “If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.”
2. 2

   Semen.slanguncountablevulgar

   • When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.
3. 3

   Female ejaculatory discharge.slanguncountablevulgar

1. 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.
   • Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.

1. 1

   An exclamation to express annoyance.datedformal

   • Come, come! Stop crying.
   • Come now! Things could be worse.
2. 2

   An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.datedformal

   • Come, come! You can do it.
   • Come now! It won't bite you.

1. 1

   Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.alt-ofalternativeobsolete

   • 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,—p
   • Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close