COME

semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come

(noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

come

(verb) 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”

come

(verb) be found or available; “These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled”

come

(verb) reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position; “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”; “The shoes came untied”; “come into contact with a terrorist group”; “his face went red”; “your wish will come true”

occur, come

(verb) come to one’s mind; suggest itself; “It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary”; “A great idea then came to her”

come

(verb) cover a certain distance; “She came a long way”

come, come up

(verb) 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”

arrive, get, come

(verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; “She arrived home at 7 o’clock”; “She didn’t get to Chicago until after midnight”

come, come in

(verb) be received; “News came in of the massacre in Rwanda”

come

(verb) experience orgasm; “she could not come because she was too upset”

do, fare, make out, come, get along

(verb) 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”

come, follow

(verb) to be the product or result; “Melons come from a vine”; “Understanding comes from experience”

total, number, add up, come, amount

(verb) add up in number or quantity; “The bills amounted to $2,000”; “The bill came to $2,000”

come

(verb) extend or reach; “The water came up to my waist”; “The sleeves come to your knuckles”

fall, come

(verb) come under, be classified or included; “fall into a category”; “This comes under a new heading”

derive, come, descend

(verb) 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”

hail, come

(verb) be a native of; “She hails from Kalamazoo”

come

(verb) exist or occur in a certain point in a series; “Next came the student from France”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

come (third-person singular simple present comes, present participle coming, simple past (now nonstandard) come or came, past participle (rare) comen or come)

(intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.

To move towards the speaker.

To move towards the listener.

To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.

(in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.

To move towards an unstated agent.

(intransitive) To arrive.

(intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.

(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.

(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.

(intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.

(intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

(copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.

(figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.

(copulative, fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.

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

(slang) To carry through; to succeed in.

(intransitive) Happen.

(intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.

To have a certain social background.

To be or have been a resident or native.

To have been brought up by or employed by.

To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).

(intransitive, of grain) To germinate.

(transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.

Usage notes

In its general sense, come specifically marks motion towards the deictic centre, (whether explicitly stated or not). Its counterpart, usually referring to motion away from or not involving the deictic centre, is go. For example, the sentence "Come to the tree" implies contextually that the speaker is already at the tree — "Go to the tree" often implies that the speaker is elsewhere. Either the speaker or the listener can be the deictic centre — the sentences "I will go to you" and "I will come to you" are both valid, depending on the exact nuances of the context. When there is no clear speaker or listener, the deictic centre is usually the focus of the sentence or the topic of the piece of writing. "Millions of people came to America from Europe" would be used in an article about America, but "Millions of people went to America from Europe" would be used in an article about Europe.

When used with adverbs of location, come is usually paired with here or hither. In interrogatives, come usually indicates a question about source — "Where are you coming from?" — while go indicates a question about destination — "Where are you going?" or "Where are you going to?"

A few old texts use comen as the past participle. Also, in some dialects, like rural Scots and rural Midlands dialects, the form comen is still occasionally in use, so phrases like the following can still be encountered there — Sa thoo bist comen heyr to nim min 'orse frae mee, then? [sä ðuː bɪst cʊmn̩ hiər tə nɪm miːn ɔːrs frə miː, d̪ɛn] (so you have come here to steal my horse from me, then?).

Formerly the verb be was used as the auxiliary instead of have, for example, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

The phrase "dream come true" is a set phrase; the verb "come" in the sense "become" is archaic outside of some set phrases like come about, come loose, come true and come undone.

The collocations come with and come along mean accompany, used as "Do you want to come with me?" and "Do you want to come along?" In the Midwestern American dialect, "come with" can occur without a following object, as in "Do you want to come with?" In this dialect, "with" can also be used in this way with some other verbs, such as "take with". Examples of this may be found in plays by Chicagoan David Mamet, such as American Buffalo. This objectless use is not permissible in other dialects.

The meaning of to ejaculate is considered vulgar slang. Many style guides and editors recommend the spelling come for verb uses while strictly allowing the spelling cum for the noun. Both spellings are sometimes found in either the noun or verb sense, however. Others prefer to distinguish in formality, using come for any formal usage and cum only in slang, erotic or pornographic contexts.

Antonyms

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

Noun

come (uncountable)

(obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.

(vulgar, slang) Semen

(vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.

Usage notes

The meaning of semen or female ejaculatory discharge is considered vulgar slang. Many style guides and editors recommend the spelling come for verb uses while strictly allowing the spelling cum for the noun. Both spellings are sometimes found in either the noun or verb sense, however. Others prefer to distinguish in formality, using come for any formal usage and cum only in slang, erotic or pornographic contexts.

Preposition

come

Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.

Usage notes

• Came is sometimes used instead when the events occurred in the past.

Interjection

come

An exclamation to express annoyance.

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

Etymology 2

Noun

come (plural comes)

(typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.

Anagrams

• ECMO, MECO, meco-

Source: Wiktionary

Come, v. i. [imp. Came; p. p. Come; p. pr & vb. n. Coming.] Etym: [OE. cumen, comen, AS. cuman; akin to OS.kuman, D. komen, OHG. queman, G. kommen, Icel. koma, Sw. komma, Dan. komme, Goth. giman, L. venire (gvenire), Gr. gam. *23. Cf. Base, n., Convene, Adventure.]

1. To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; -- opposed to go. Look, who comes yonder Shak. I did not come to curse thee. Tennyson.

2. To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive. When we came to Rome. Acts xxviii. 16. Lately come from Italy. Acts vviii. 2.

3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or form a distance. "Thy kingdom come." Matt. vi. 10. The hour is comming, and now is. John. v. 25. So quik bright things come to confusion. Shak.

4. To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another. From whence come wars James iv. 1. Both riches and honor come of thee! Chron. xxix. 12.

5. To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear. Then butter does refuse to come. Hudibras.

6. To get to be, as the result of change or progress; -- with a predicate; as, to come united. How come you thus estranged Shak. How come her eyes so bright Shak.

Note: Am come, is come, etc., are frequently used instead of have come, has come, etc., esp. in poetry. The verb to be gives adjectival significance to the participle as expressing a state or condition of the subject, while the auxiliary have expresses simply the completion of the action signified by the verb. Think not that I am come to destroy. Matt. v. 17. We are come off like Romans. Shak. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year. Bryant.

Note: Come may properly be used (instead of go) in speaking of a movement hence, or away, when there is reference to an approach to the person addressed; as, I shall come home next week; he will come to your house to-day. It is used with other verbs almost as an auxiliary, indicative of approach to the action or state expressed by the verb; as, how came you to do it Come is used colloquially, with reference to a definite future time approaching, without an auxilliary; as, it will be two years, come next Christmas; i. e., when Christmas shall come. They were cried In meeting, come next Sunday. Lowell. Come, in the imperative, is used to excite attention, or to invite to motion or joint action; come, let us go. "This is the heir; come, let us kill him." Matt. xxi. 38. When repeated, it sometimes expresses haste, or impatience, and sometimes rebuke. "Come, come, no time for lamentation now." Milton. To come, yet to arrive, future. "In times to come." Dryden. "There's pippins and cheese to come." Shak.

– To come about. (a) To come to pass; to arrive; to happen; to result; as, how did these things come about (b) To change; to come round; as, the ship comes about. "The wind is come about." Shak. On better thoughts, and my urged reasons, They are come about, and won to the true side. B. Jonson.

– To come abroad. (a) To move or be away from one's home or country. "Am come abroad to see the world." Shak. (b) To become public or known. [Obs.] "Neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad." Mark. iv. 22.

– To come across, to meet; to find, esp. by chance or suddenly. "We come across more than one incidental mention of those wars." E. A. Freeman. "Wagner's was certainly one of the strongest and most independent natures I ever came across." H. R. Heweis.

– To come after. (a) To follow. (b) To come to take or to obtain; as, to come after a book.

– To come again, to return. "His spirit came again and he revived." Judges. xv. 19.

– To come and go. (a) To appear and disappear; to change; to alternate. "The color of the king doth come and go." Shak. (b) (Mech.) To play backward and forward.

– To come at. (a) To reach; to arrive within reach of; to gain; as, to come at a true knowledge of ourselves. (b) To come toward; to attack; as, he came at me with fury.

– To come away, to part or depart.

– To come between, to interverne; to separate; hence, to cause estrangement.

– To come by. (a) To obtain, gain, acquire. "Examine how you came by all your state." Dryden. (b) To pass near or by way of.

– To come down. (a) To descend. (b) To be humbled.

– To come down upon, to call to account, to reprimand. [Colloq.] Dickens.

– To come home. (a) To retuen to one's house or family. (b) To come close; to press closely; to touch the feelings, interest, or reason. (b) (Naut.) To be loosened from the ground; -- said of an anchor.

– To come in. (a) To enter, as a town, house, etc. "The thief cometh in." Hos. vii. 1. (b) To arrive; as, when my ship comes in. (c) To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln came in. (d) To comply; to yield; to surrender. "We need not fear his coming in" Massinger. (e) To be brought into use. "Silken garments did not come in till late." Arbuthnot. (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. Gen. xxxviii. 16. (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come in next May. [U. S.] -- To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for subsidies." Swift.

– To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to; to comply with; as, to come into a party or scheme.

– To come it ever, to hoodwink; to get the advantage of. [Colloq.]

– To come near or nigh, to approach in place or quality to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it." Sir W. Temple.

– To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by the eye." L'Estrange.

– To come off. (a) To depart or pass off from. (b) To get free; to get away; to escape. (c) To be carried through; to pass off; as, it came off well. (d) To acquit one's self; to issue from (a contest, etc.); as, he came off with honor; hence, substantively, a come off, an escape; an excuse; an evasion. [Colloq.] (e) To pay over; to give. [Obs.] (f) To take place; to happen; as, when does the race come off (g) To be or become after some delay; as, the weather came off very fine. (h) To slip off or be taken off, as a garment; to separate. (i) To hurry away; to get through. Chaucer.

– To come off by, to suffer. [Obs.] "To come off by the worst." Calamy.

– To come off from, to leave. "To come off from these grave disquisitions." Felton.

– To come on. (a) To advance; to make progress; to thrive. (b) To move forward; to approach; to supervene.

– To come out. (a) To pass out or depart, as from a country, room, company, etc. "They shall come out with great substance." Gen. xv. 14. (b) To become public; to appear; to be published. "It is indeed come out at last." Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this affair come out he has come out well at last. (d) To be introduced into society; as, she came out two seasons ago. (e) To appear; to show itself; as, the sun came out. (f) To take sides; to take a stand; as, he came out against the tariff.(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual.

– To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose.

– To come over. (a) To pass from one side or place to another. "Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them." Addison. (b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

– To come over to, to join.

– To come round. (a) To recur in regular course. (b) To recover. [Colloq.] (c) To change, as the wind. (d) To relent. J. H. Newman. (e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.] -- To come short, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Rom. iii. 23.

– To come to. (a) To consent or yield. Swift. (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to brin the ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor. (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon. (d) To arrive at; to reach. (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum. (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance. Shak.

– To come to blows. See under Blow.

– To come to grief. See under Grief.

– To come to a head. (a) To suppurate, as a boil. (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

– To come to one's self, to recover one's senses.

– To come to pass, to happen; to fall out.

– To come to the scratch. (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in beginning a contest; hence: (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely. [Colloq.] -- To come to time. (a) (Prize Fighting) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and "time" is called; hence: (b) To keep an appointment; to meet expectations. [Colloq.] -- To come together. (a) To meet for business, worship, etc.; to assemble. Acts i. 6. (b) To live together as man and wife. Matt. i. 18.

– To come true, to happen as predicated or expected.

– To come under, to belong to, as an individual to a class.

– To come up (a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion.

– To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it.

– To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. Totten.

– To come up to, to rise to; to equal.

– To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit.

– To come upon. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a claim upon; to become dependent upon for support; as, to come upon the town. (d) To light or chance upon; to find; as, to come upon hid treasure.

Come, v. t.

Definition: To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here. [Slang] To come it, to succeed in a trick of any sort. [Slang]

Come, n.

Definition: Coming. Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

COME

Etymology 1

Verb

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Antonyms

Noun

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Preposition

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Interjection

Etymology 2

Noun

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