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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Come \Come\, v. i. [imp. {Came}; p. p. {Come}; p. pr & vb n. {Coming}.] [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 ? to go Skr. gam. [root]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 xviii. 2. 3. To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance. ``Thy kingdom come.'' --Matt. vi 10. The hour is coming, and now is --John. v. 25. So quick 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 ! --1 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 untied. 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 a clearer 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 auxiliary; 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. Haweis {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 intervene; 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 return to one's house or family. b To come close to press closely; to touch the feelings, interest, or reason. c (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 over}, 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Come \Come\, v. t. 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] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Come \Come\, n. Coming. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: come v 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 by making progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "He got into college"; "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: come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His breath came hard" [syn: {issue forth}] 8: be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled" 9: be a native of "She hails from Kalamazoo" [syn: {hail}] 10: come from "The present name derives from an older form" [syn: {derive}] 11: extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles" 12: exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came the student from France" 13: cover a certain distance: "She came a long way" 14: develop into "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: {add up}, {amount}] 15: come under be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: {fall}] 16: come to one's mind; suggest itself "It occurred to me that we shold hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her" [syn: {occur}] 17: happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this" 18: 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}] 19: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: {total}, {number}, {add up}, {amount}] 20: be received, as of news on the radio or television; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda" [syn: {come in}] 21: 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}] 22: experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too upset" 23: have a certain priority; "My family comes first"
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