Dictionary Definition
come
Verb
1 move toward, travel toward something or
somebody or approach something or somebody; "He came singing down
the road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!"; "come
out of the closet!"; "come into the room" [syn: come up] [ant:
go]
2 reach a destination; arrive by movement or
progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to
Chicago until after midnight" [syn: arrive, get] [ant: leave]
3 come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The
first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn
comes early in June"
4 reach a state, relation, or condition; "The
water came to a boil"; "We came to understand the true meaning of
life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I came to realize the true
meaning of life"
5 to be the product or result; "Melons come from
a vine"; "Understanding comes from experience" [syn: follow]
6 enter or assume a condition, relation, use, or
position; "He came into contact with a terrorist group"; "The shoes
came untied"; "I came to see his point of view"; "her face went red
with anger"; "The knot came loose"; "Your wish will come
true"
7 be found or available; "These shoes come in
three colors; The furniture comes unassembled"
8 come forth; "A scream came from the woman's
mouth"; "His breath came hard" [syn: issue
forth]
9 be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo"
[syn: hail]
10 extend or reach; "The water came up to my
waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles"
11 exist or occur in a certain point in a series;
"Next came the student from France"
12 come from; be connected by a relationship of
blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble
family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: derive, descend]
13 cover a certain distance; "She came a long
way"
14 come under, be classified or included; "fall
into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall]
15 happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of
this"
16 add up in number or quantity; "The bills
amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number, add up, amount]
17 develop into; "This idea will never amount to
anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: add up, amount]
18 be received; "News came in of the massacre in
Rwanda" [syn: come in]
19 come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It
occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great
idea then came to her" [syn: occur]
20 proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her
new job?"; "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come
a long way" [syn: do,
fare, make out,
get
along]
21 experience orgasm; "she could not come because
she was too upset"
22 have a certain priority; "My family comes
first" [also: came]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
cuman from . Cognates include Sanskrit sc=Deva, Ancient Greek sc=polytonic, Latin venio, German kommen, Swedish komma.Pronunciation
- , /kʌm/, /kVm/
- Rhymes with: -ʌm
Homophones
Noun
(also cum)- semen or female ejaculatory discharge.
Usage notes
This spelling (for this meaning) is extremely rare, in comparison to the homophone cum.Preposition
come- when an event has occurred or a time has arrived
- Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoctions to offer your guests.
Antonyms
- go (1)
Verb
Derived terms
- come about
- come across
- come after
- come along
- come around
- come back
- come clean
- come down
- come forward
- come off
- come off it
- come on
- come out
- come short
- come through
- come true
- come up
- come into
Translations
To move from further away to nearer to
- Arabic: (jā’a)
- Basque: etorri
- Bavarian: kemma
- Bulgarian: идвам / отивам (idvam / otivam)
- Chinese: 來, 来 (lái)
- Crimean Tatar: kelmek
- Czech: přijít
- Dutch: komen
- Esperanto: veni
- Estonian: tulema
- Finnish: tulla
- French: venir
- German: kommen
- Greek: έρχομαι (érkhomai), έλα (ela)
- Hebrew: לבוא (lavó)
- Hindi: आना (ānā)
- Hungarian: jön
- Ido: venar
- Indonesian: datang, mendatangi, mendatang, mendatangkan
- Irish: tar
- Italian: venire
- Japanese: 来る (くる, kúru)
- Korean: 오다 (oda)
- Kurdish: hatin,
- Latin: venire
- Malay: datang, mari
- Manchu: jimbi
- Mongolian: ирэх (irekh)
- Old English: cuman
- Pashto:
- Persian: (āmædæn)
- Polish: przychodzić
- Portuguese: vir
- Rohingya: ai
- Romanian: veni
- Romansch: vegnir
- Russian: приходить / прийти (prikhodít’, prijtí)
- Scottish Gaelic: thig
- Slovene: priti
- Spanish: venir
- Swedish: komma
- Thai: (maa)
- Turkish: gelmek
- Urdu: (ānā)
- Yiddish: קומען (komen)
To orgasm
(come by) To get one’s hands on
See also
Italian
Pronunciation
- [ˈkome]
Adverb
comeConjunction
come- as
soon as
- Come arrivò... - As soon as he arrived...
Spanish
Pronunciation
- SAMPA /"kome/
Verb
comeExtensive Definition
Come may refer to:
- Come (US band), an American indie rock band, formed in 1990
- Come (UK
band), a British noise project founded in 1979
- Come Organisation, its record label
- Come (album), a 1994 album by Prince
- COMe, COM_Express, a Single-board computer type
Cum may refer to:
- CUM, an acronym for Montreal Urban Community
- Cum, a Latin word with several meanings, including with, when, since, and although (used in Latin honors)
- Cum, cubic meters (not very common)
In sexual slang:
come in German: Cum
come in Esperanto: CUM
come in French: CUM
come in Simple English: Cum
come in Italian: CUM
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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,
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