come
/kʌm/ verb, noun, preposition, interjection
Also a form of comma
Forms comes coming came comen comed comest camest camedst comedst cometh coom
- verb (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective. “She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]”
- verb To move toward the speaker. “I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.”
- verb To move toward the listener. “Hold on, I'll come in a second.”
- verb To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence. “No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.”
- verb (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause. “King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.”
- verb To move toward an unstated agent. “The butler should come when called.”
- verb (intransitive) To arrive.
- verb (intransitive) To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting. “The pain in his leg comes and goes.”
- noun (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
- noun (vulgar, slang) Semen. “When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.”
- noun (vulgar, slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
- preposition 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.”
- interjection (dated or formal) An exclamation to express annoyance. “Come, come! Stop crying.”
- interjection (dated or formal) An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request. “Come, come! You can do it.”
Synonyms
become get go turn fall grow wax come about occur take place semen seed seminal fluid ejaculate cum come up arrive follow issue forth hail total number add up amount come in derive descend do fare make out
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step; to arrive”), from *gʷem- (“to come, step”).
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Yola come, coome, cum (“to come”), North Frisian kaame, kame, keem, kem, kum, kååme, käme (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kume, kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Alemannic German cha, cheemen, cheme, cho, chomu, chéeme (“to come”), Bavarian ckeman, kemma, kemman, khemen, kumma, kumman, kèmmin (“to come”), Central Franconian komme, kunn, kumme (“to come”), Cimbrian ken, khemmen, khèmman (“to come”), Dutch komen, kommen (“to come”), Dutch Low Saxon kåmen (“to come”), German and Luxembourgish kommen (“to come”), Low German kamen, kuemen (“to come”), Mòcheno kemmen (“to come”), Yiddish קימען (kimen), קומען (kumen, “to come”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål komme (“to come”), Elfdalian kumå (“to come”), Faroese and Icelandic koma (“to come; to arrive”), Jamtish kuma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk koma, komma, komme, kåmmå, kåmå (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Crimean Gothic kommen (“to come”), Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (qiman, “to come”).
Cognate from Proto-Indo-European with Latin venio (“to come; to approach”), Greek βήμα (víma, “pace, step”), Albanian ngah, ngaj (“to hasten, run”), Latvian dzimt (“to be born”), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born”), Armenian եկ (ek, “the act of coming, arrival; income”), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬨 (gam, “to come, go”), Northern Kurdish gav (“step”), Persian گام (gâm, “step”), Tocharian A kum- (“to come”), Tocharian B käm- (“to come”), Sanskrit गम् (gam, “to come, go, move”).
See comma.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; --opposed to go. Look, who comes yonder Shak.
- verb To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.
- verb 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]
- noun Coming. Chaucer.
Etymology [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.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “come”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details