come

verb

1. (intransitive)To move nearer to the point of perspective.

   “She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]”

   “Look, who comes yonder?”

   “Yet think not that I come to urge thy crimes, / I did not come to curse thee, Guinevere, […]”

2. (intransitive)To move nearer to the point of perspective.

   “I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.”

   “Stop dawdling and come here!”

   “Come one, come all. Step right up!”

3. (intransitive)To move nearer to the point of perspective.

   “Hold on, I'll come in a second.”

   “You should ask the doctor to come to your house.”

4. (intransitive)To move nearer to the point of perspective.

   “No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.”

   “Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.”

5. (intransitive)To move nearer to the point of perspective.

   “King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.”

   “He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.”

6. (intransitive)To move nearer to the point of perspective.

   “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: […]”

   “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.”

   “So I'd have ate^([sic]) when me Dad had ate, sort of thing, I think, you know when he come home from work, I'd have waited for him, I wouldn't have said I wanted mine at four o'clock[…]”

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

   “The pain in his leg comes and goes.”

   “The news came as a shock.”

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.”

   “Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.”

10. 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.”

    “Come in me!”

    “Nick was more and more seriously absorbed, but then just before he came he had a brief vision of himself, as if the trees and bushes had rolled away and all the lights of London shone in on him: little Nick Guest from Barwick, Don and Dot Guest's boy, fucking a stranger in a Notting Hill garden at night.”

    “The sheer unimaginableness of coming into her mouth — of coming into anything other than the air or a tissue or a dirty sock — was an allurement too stupendous for a novice to forswear.”

13. (intransitive)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.”

    “One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.”

15. (figuratively)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”

    “come true”

    “come about”

    “come clean”

    “come alive”

17. (intransitive)To be supplied, or made available; to exist.

    “He's as tough as they come.”

    “Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours.”

    “A new sports car doesn't come cheap.”

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.”

    “But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.”

20. (intransitive)To have as an origin, originate.

    “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)To have as an origin, originate.

    “Where did you come from?”

22. (intransitive)To have as an origin, originate.

    “She comes from a good family.”

    “He comes from a disreputable legal firm.”

23. (intransitive)To have as an origin, originate.

    “The river comes from Bear Lake.”

    “Where does this road come from?”

24. (intransitive)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.”

    ““Hush! hush! Mr. Sikes,” said the Jew, trembling; “don’t speak so loud!” / “None of your mistering,” replied the ruffian; “you always mean mischief when you come that. You know my name: out with it! I shan’t disgrace it when the time comes.””

    “Ponds drew a chair to the table and seated himself and poured Mrs Dibble a gin, saying solemnly, "Now then, Mrs Dibble, what's it all about?" "I'm upholding my rights agen that woman that's been coming the high and mighty over me like I ain't got the right to say a word in me own business."”

noun

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.
4. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative form of 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.”

   “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 of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.”

prep

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.”

   “Come summer, we would all head off to the coast.”

   “"And a long sea voyage that starts at six o'clock come morning."”

   “Come the final whistle, Mikel Arteta lay flabbergasted on the turf.”

intj

1. (dated, formal)An exclamation to express annoyance.

   “Come, come! Stop crying.”

   “Come now! Things could be worse.”

   “"Come, that will do," interrupted Joolby with an impatient growl; […]”

2. (dated, formal)An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

   “Come, come! You can do it.”

   “Come now! It won't bite you.”

   “Her. What wisdome stirs amongst you? Come Sir, now I am for you againe: 'Pray you sit by vs, And tell's a Tale.”

   “Come then, pure hands, and bear the head ⁠That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep, ⁠And come, whatever loves to weep, And hear the ritual of the dead.”

   ““I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.”