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Definition: Come Around |
Come AroundVerb1. 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 AroundSynonyms: come round (v), roll around (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
Expression using "come around": come around to one's point of vew. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
when i come around | 50 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 venir en (call in, jockey, pop in, top off, touch down). (various references) ge med sig (abate, back down, yield to treatment). (various references) об'їхати, заїжджати (fetch, pick up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
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| 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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