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Come Around

Definition: Come Around

Come Around

Verb

1. Change one's position or opinion: "He came around to our point of view".

2. Happen regularly; "Christmas rolled around again".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Come Around

Synonyms: come round (v), roll around (v). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Come Around

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I mean more or less knew he was a loser but that doesn't make it okay for you to come around andwhat? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Some do, when they come around snooping (Bad Day at Black Rock; writing credit: Howard Breslin; Don McGuire)

Come around some day with a fistful. (Torch Singer; writing credit: Lenore J. Coffee; Grace Perkins)

All right, we can insert here at the George Washington Bridge, come around the bank just off of Manhattan, land on the far side of Liberty Island, here. (X-Men; writing credit: Tom DeSanto; Bryan Singer)

Lyrics

And I never know when I come around (Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon; performing artist: Neil Diamond; writing credit: Neil Diamond)

DON'T DENY DON'T BE SHY JUST COME AROUND (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints)

And you come around (Heaven Is A Place On Earth; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

I pulled into Nashville, Tennessee, but you wouldn't even come around to see me (Steal My Kisses; performing artist: Ben Harper)

If you can't come around (Don't Be Cruel; performing artist: Cheap Trick)

Song Titles

When I Come Around (performing artist: Green Day)

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Spoken Usage: Come Around

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Sean Penn

Well, let me see if it turns out that I come around to voicing my opinion, because I certainly don't think that that's primary in this.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Come Around

Expression using "come around": come around to one's point of vew. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Come Around

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

when i come around

50
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Modern Translation: Come Around

Language Translations for "come around"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vij në vete (collect oneself, come to, revive, wake up), e marr veten (pull through), dorëzohem (capitulate, give in, give oneself up, knuckle under, succumb, surrender, throw up one's hands, throw up the sponge). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

やって来る (at last, at length, to come along, to come around, to turn up). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

やってくる (to come along, to come around, to turn up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omecay arounday

   

Spanish

  

venir en (call in, jockey, pop in, top off, touch down). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ge med sig (abate, back down, yield to treatment). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

об'їхати, заїжджати (fetch, pick up). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Come Around

Misspellings

"Come Around" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: come arround. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Come Around

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-m-n-o-o-r-u"

-2 letters: coenamor, marooned, romanced, unmoored.

-3 letters: candour, cardoon, caromed, comrade, coronae, crooned, crunode, decorum, decuman, doorman, doormen, duramen, durance, enamour, madrone, madrono, manured, maunder, morceau, mourned, neuroma, romance, rondeau, unarmed.

-4 letters: acnode, acumen, around, candor, canoed, carmen, cedarn, comade, comedo, condom, condor, cordon, cornea, corned, cornua, corona, craned, daemon, damner, dancer, deacon, dromon, enamor.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-m-n-o-o-r-u"
 

+4 letters: nondocumentary.

 

+5 letters: echinodermatous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Spoken
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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