come out
/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ verb
Forms comes out coming out came out
- verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out. “The mouse came out of the hole.”
- verb (intransitive) To be discovered; to be revealed. “It finally came out that he had been lying all the time.”
- verb (intransitive) To be published or released; to be issued; to be broadcast for the first time. “My new book comes out next week.”
- verb (dated or historical, of a debutante) To make a formal debut in society. “My daughter comes out in the spring.”
- verb (copulative) To end up or result; to turn out to be. “There were a lot of problems at the start, but it all came out well in the end.”
- verb (cricket, of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
- verb (idiomatic, informal) To come out of the closet. “He came out to his parents as gay last week.”
- verb To originate in; to derive from; to be taken from out of or to have arrived from. “That comes out of my paycheck.”
Synonyms
come on turn up surface show up appear issue emerge come forth go forth egress turn out fall out place come in come to the fore step forward come forward step up step to the fore start protrude pop pop out bulge bulge out bug out come out of the closet out erupt break through
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “come out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details