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Come

Definition: Come

Come

Verb

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".

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".

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".

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. Be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled".

8. Come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His breath came hard".

9. Be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo".

10. : extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles".

11. : exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came the student from France".

12. : 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".

13. : cover a certain distance: "She came a long way".

14. : come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading".

15. : happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this".

16. : add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000".

17. : develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans".

18. : be received, as of news on the radio or television; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda".

19. : come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came to her".

20. : 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".

21. : experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too upset".

22. : have a certain priority; "My family comes first".

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

Date "come" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Come

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

Dutch (klaarkomen), Portuguese (gozar). (references)

Slang

Semen, to ejaculate. (references)

Slang in 1811

COME. To come; to lend. Has he come it; has he lent it? To come over any one; to cheat or over reach him. Coming wench; a forward wench, also a breeding woman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Specialty Definition: Come

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Besides being a common english word denoting arrival or a request for someone to approach; come (slang: "cum") is also a familiar term for:

  1. semen
  2. orgasm

    Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Come."

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Synonyms: Come

Synonyms: add up (v), amount (v), arrive (v), come in (v), come up (v), derive (v), descend (v), do (v), fall (v), fare (v), follow (v), get (v), get along (v), hail (v), issue forth (v), make out (v), number (v), occur (v), total (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: go (v), leave (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Come

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Arrival

Verb: arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up to; overtake, make, fetch; complete; join, rejoin.

Eventuality

Verb: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off; (be past).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Come

English words defined with "come": come about, come across, come after, come along, come away, come back, come forth, come hell or high water, come in, come into being, come off, come out, come to grips, come to life, come together, come up, come withhow cometime to come, To come, To come about, To come abroad, To come across, To come after, To come again, To come at, To come home, To come honestly by, To come in, To come into, To come off by, To come off from, To come one's way, To come or draw to a head, To come over, To come to, To come up, To come up with, To come upon, To go and comewhatever may come. (references)
Specialty definitions using "come": Come and take Them, Come Ather, come close/to, Come Down a Peg, Come Down upon One, Come it, Come Lightly, Come Of, Come On!, Come Over One, come sit up, Come That, Come the Religious Dodge, Come to an End, Come to Grief, Come to Pass, come to stay/to, Come to the Hammer, Come to the Heath, Come to the Scratch, Come Yorkshire over OneKingdom ComeMarry Come Up!. (references)
Etymologies containing "come": Venue. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Come" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (mandatorial), Italian (as, as well as, both ... and, for, how, like, such, such as, what, what ... like, whereby), Lombard (as, how, like, such as).

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Modern Usage: Come

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill me, so don't think you can come down here, flash a badge, and make me nervous (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Why don't you come up to my place (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I would if it didn't give me a shock every time I come near it (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

Though the fire seemed to spread through the quarter, I stood on that deck, fearful he would come out again from the very river, like some monster, to destroy us both (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Lyrics

NEVER COME HOME,I GOTTA GO JUST GIMME THE WHIP (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

All I want is you, come over here baby (Come On Over (All I Want Is You) (Radio Edit); performing artist: Christina Aguilera)

Ahh, it'll take a little time, might take a little crime to come undone (Come Undone; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Oh I will come to you (I Will Come To You; performing artist: Hanson)

Come and get your love, come and get your love, come and get your love (Come and Get Your Love; performing artist: Real McCoy)

Clever

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. (references; author: Mark Twain)

If the people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em. (references; author: Yogi Berra)

Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese (references; author: unknown)

If innocence can leave, guilt can come. (references; author: unknown)

If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose? (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

Come kick six sticks quick. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

On the Come Up at the Source Awards (2001)

Bello come un arcangelo (1974)

May We Come In? (1974)

Come On Children (1973)

The Harder They Come (1973)

Song Titles

Come Go With Me (performing artist: The Beach Boys)

Come Back Liza (performing artist: Harry Belafonte)

Come Go With Me (performing artist: The Del Vikings)

Come Together (And Build A Barn) (performing artist: The Electric Amish)

COME SOFTLY TO ME  (performing artist: Fleetwoods )

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

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Commercial Usage: Come

DomainTitle

References

  • Ecisa Engenharia Come Ind SA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Aaron Carter: Come Get It (reference)

  • Come And Abide (We Are All The Same Inside) (reference)

  • When the Women Come Out to Dance (reference)

  • Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science (Hpc Classics Series) (reference)

  • I Was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Come

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Photo Album: Come

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By 1911, the staff had come to realize the need for a hospital connected to Gratwick laboratories. The result was the Cary Pavillion, a 30-bed hospital. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Treating pets with insecticidal dust to kill fleas that could come into contact with humans can help control the spread of plague bacteria. Credit: CDC.

Someday our Milky Way Galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy may come crashing together ... Credit: NASA.

Egyptian tomb painting from 1450 B.C. showing officer with sounding pole Officer is telling crew to come ahead slow Engineers with cat-o'-nine-tails assuring proper response from engines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Wiredrag diagram The basic principle is to drag a wire attached to two vessels If the wire encounters an obstruction it will come taut and form a "V". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Point Udall Millennium Monument. A sundial was erected here, the easternmost point of United States Territory to commemorate the coming of the new millennium . The marker represents "a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come.". Credit: America's Coastlines.

Sunrise at the Point Udall Millennium Monument. Here the new day begins for the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The marker represents "a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come.". Credit: America's Coastlines.

Aerial photograph of school of 400-500 pound bluefin tuna off Cat Cay, Bahamas Islands. The reason there are only adult tuna in the photo, is that they have come together for spawning. Credit: Fisheries.

West Fork Blackbird Creek, a tailing facility. The structure to the right is a spillway. Several million cubic yards contaminated tailings are behind the dam. Water is diverted into a concrete channel so it does not come into contact with the tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Jellyfish come in many forms, many too fragile to capture in nets. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Come
 

"May our wishes come true" by Michelle Ho
Commentary: "A wish tree at the Bottle Temple, Thailand."
"A dream will come..." by Nik Frey
Commentary: "When the sun gos down on koh tao."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Come".

PlayCaption
Bubble; pop; future; space; science fiction; breach; bare; break in; break out; broach; burst; bust in; come apart; crack; disclose; display; disrupt; expand; expose; fissure; free; gap; gape; hole; jimmy; kick in; lacerate; lance; penetrate; perforate; p.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Come

AuthorQuotation

Beaumont and Fletcher

Whistle, and she'll come to you.

Francis Bacon

By indignities men come to dignities.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Jonathan Swift

Come, agree, the law's costly.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

All grand thoughts come from the heart.
Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Phaedrus

Come of it what may, as Sinon said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our best thoughts come from others.

Robert Browning

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Come

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

And when the summons has thus been made, the business shall proceed on the day appointed, according to the counsel of such as are present, although not all who were summoned have come. (reference)

John Locke

1690

And thus the legislative and executive power come often to be separated. (Second Treatise of Government)

Communist Manifesto

1848

In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end. (reference)

Abraham Lincoln

1863

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. (The Gettysburg Address)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

From the date of this first proces-verbal the Treaty will come into force between the High Contracting Parties who have ratified it. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

I am glad to come to Westminster College this afternoon, and am complimented that you should give me a degree. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

These cases come to us from the States of Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware. (reference)

John F. Kennedy

1961

And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. (reference)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1936)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Come

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

They would hardly come in their chaise, I think, at that season of the year

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

If it is all his own, he will make a good algebraist in the time to come.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

I have come to dinner

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

But, as for me, I come to the inquest with other senses than they possess

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The next day be did not come.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Come to Him, poor sinner, poor vain and erring sinner

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Ratcliff, come hither

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

We come from there

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

And last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide and seek in my hair

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Let the reports of all the learned societies come to us, and we will see if they know anything

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Come

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Phytoestrogens come from plant-based foods. (references)

They come in the form of eyedrops and pills. (references)

These transporter molecules come in several forms. (references)

Business

Parts mainly come from Russia and Kazakhstan. (references)

To be more competitive, U.S. firms need more ODA to come into Vietnam. (references)

Other makes on the market come from Korea, China and other European countries. (references)

Children

Thailand

Many are thought to come from neighboring countries, including Cambodia and Burma. (references)

Brazil

A study by the IGBE reported that 47 percent of Sao Paulo street children come from families that earn less than $200 (540 reais) per month. (references)

Denmark

Building regulations require special facilities for the disabled in public buildings built or renovated after 1977 and in older buildings that come into public use. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sri Lanka

The case has not come to trial. (references)

Indonesia

Nonetheless, many foreign clergy come to the country. (references)

Spain

Many such applicants come from politically stable but economically impoverished countries. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

Since then privatization has come to a standstill. (references)

Hungary

Major competitors come from Germany, France and Italy. (references)

India

There is going be a huge demand for bandwith in years to come. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

It had not come to trial at year's end. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Civil cases rarely come to public trial. (references)

United Kingdom

Witnesses have been reluctant to come forward. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

In October the Government passed the Papua Special Autonomy Law, which had not come into effect by year's end. (references)

Indonesia

Most civil servants in local governments in Papua and other isolated areas continue to come primarily from other parts of the country, rather than from the local indigenous population. (references)

Taiwan

Some Aborigine leaders have come to believe that only some form of autonomy can preserve their land rights, which constantly are threatened by Chinese developers who use connections and corruption to gain title to aboriginal land. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

The investigation into the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires has come to a virtual standstill. (references)

Germany

Neighbors have expressed concerns about an increase in traffic if visitors come to attend services at the mosque. (references)

Czech Republic

Under the law, individual Roma do not have the right to file discrimination complaints; action must come from governmental authorities. (references)

Political Economy

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Recovery could come by the second quarter of 2002, at the earliest. (references)

Senegal

About 300 Senegalese students come to the United States each year for study. (references)

Poland

Resistance has also come from often-bloated middle management in such enterprises. (references)

Political Rights

Bahrain

Funding will come from taxes collected by the Ministry of Municipalities and the Environment. (references)

Congo

Provincial government resources, both financial and logistical, almost exclusively have come from Kinshasa since Laurent Kabila took control of the Government in 1997. President Joseph Kabila continued his father's practice of filling a disproportionate number of government positions with persons from his home province of Katanga, and specifically from his Muluba ethnic group. (references)

Trade

Sri Lanka

Tobacco, cigarettes and liquor do not come under the two-band rate structure. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Come with a large supply. (references)

Egypt

A few foreign firms come to Egypt and give up after a short stay. (references)

Panama

The applicant must prove his earnings will come from outside of Panama. (references)

Women

Ghana

These abuses usually go unreported and seldom come before the courts. (references)

Indonesia

The regulation has come under considerable attack and renewed scrutiny. (references)

Mexico

Many female victims were reluctant to come forward, and cases were difficult to prove. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

Some teenage prostitutes come from middle class families. (references)

Philippines

Typically they come from families with unemployed or irregularly employed parents. (references)

Mali

If the parties cannot come to agreement, the dispute goes to the Labor Court for decision. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certain Orientals attain a surprising proficiency, as the incident here related will serve to show. The account is translated from the Japanese by Shusi Itama, a famous writer of the thirteenth century. When the great Gichi-Kuktai was Mikado he condemned to decapitation Jijiji Ri, a high officer of the Court. Soon after the hour appointed for performance of the rite what was his Majesty's surprise to see calmly approaching the throne the man who should have been at that time ten minutes dead! "Seventeen hundred impossible dragons!" shouted the enraged monarch. "Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock? And is it not now 3:10?" "Son of a thousand illustrious deities," answered the condemned minister, "all that you say is so true that the truth is a lie in comparison. But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded. With joy I ran and placed my unworthy body in the market-place. The executioner appeared with his bare scimetar, ostentatiously whirled it in air, and then, tapping me lightly upon the neck, strode away, pelted by the populace, with whom I was ever a favorite. I am come to pray for justice upon his own dishonorable and treasonous head." "To what regiment of executioners does the black-boweled caitiff belong?" asked the Mikado. "To the gallant Ninety-eight Hundred and Thirty-seventh -- I know the man. His name is Sakko-Samshi." "Let him be brought before me," said the Mikado to an attendant, and a half-hour later the culprit stood in the Presence. "Thou bastard son of a three-legged hunchback without thumbs!" roared the sovereign -- "why didst thou but lightly tap the neck that it should have been thy pleasure to sever?" "Lord of Cranes of Cherry Blooms," replied the executioner, unmoved, "command him to blow his nose with his fingers." Being commanded, Jijiji Ri laid hold of his nose and trumpeted like an elephant, all expecting to see the severed head flung violently from him. Nothing occurred: the performance prospered peacefully to the close, without incident. All eyes were now turned on the executioner, who had grown as white as the snows on the summit of Fujiama. His legs trembled and his breath came in gasps of terror. "Several kinds of spike-tailed brass lions!" he cried; "I am a ruined and disgraced swordsman! I struck the villain feebly because in flourishing the scimetar I had accidentally passed it through my own neck! Father of the Moon, I resign my office." So saying, he gasped his top-knot, lifted off his head, and advancing to the throne laid it humbly at the Mikado's feet.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Come

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Al Hunt

All right. We're going to take a break right now, but when we come back, we'll have the Big Question for the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations.

Alexander Benedetto

Mike went down. Mike just called me. He went down there. The whole thing was a setup to just get me to come down so that they could reincarcerate me.

Barry Manilow

You got it. And I wasn't bad, believe it or not. But that would have been it, had Willie not come into my life.

David Berkowitz

Not a lot. Once in a while some people come up. I have a number of friends from the area who come by and visit.

Dennis Miller

True confidence must come from the inside.

James Van Praagh

Oh, I think we've been here many, many times. I think we come back and learn lessons. I think this is our school room. We come back and learn various things.

Robert Novak

We do have to take a break, and when we come back, we'll ask Congressman Dick Gephardt if the country needs more money for homeland security.

Rush Limbaugh

Freedoms and rights do not come from other men.

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

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Speeches: Come

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary States, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war on our failure to comply before a given day.

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1921With riches has come inexcusable waste.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Long before our enemies surrendered, the foundations had been laid on which to continue this unity in the peace to come.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961Since this century's beginning, a time of tempest has seemed to come upon the continents of the earth.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981That request will come to you in just a few days.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Well now, we come to a family issue that we must have the courage to confront.

George Bush

1989-1993Moods come and go, but greatness endures.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Because so much of what has to be done must come from the inside out.

George W. Bush

2001-2005I am honored and humbled to stand here, where so many of America's leaders have come before me, and so many will follow.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Come

"Come" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 44.49% of the time. "Come" is used about 69,402 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)44.49%30,876278
Lexical Verb (base form)34.98%24,277359
Lexical Verb (past participle)20.44%14,188647
Noun (singular)0.08%5446,184
                    Total100.00%69,402N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Come

The following table summarizes the usage of "come" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
ComeLast name17052,397
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Come

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "come".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
GergesenesN/ABiblical

Those who come from pilgrimage or fight

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Come

CountryName
Brazil

Ecisa Engenharia Come Ind SA

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Come

Expressions using "come": alongside come bad is the best: the worst come to the worst be still to come be sure and come in time! call to come out come a cropper come a day after the fair come a long way come a purler come aboard! come about come across come across smb. come across smth. come across with come adrift come after come after one another come again come again? come ajar come alive come alive again come along come along with me come along! come alongside come amiss come amiss to smb. come and go come anew come apart come around come around to one's point of vew come ashore come asunder come at come at any time come away come away with the impression come away! come back come back return to one's first love come back soon! come back to earth come back to life come back! come before come before a judge come between come between them come by come by chance come by one's own come cheaper come clean come close come close to come close/to come closer come down come down a cropper come down a peg come down handsome come down in favor of smb. come down in price come down in sheets come down in the world come down on come down on one's knees come down on one's marrowbones come down on the right side of the fence come down to come down to business come down to earth come down with come down with a run come down with smth. come down with the flu come down! come downstairs come early come face to face come fast and furious come first come flying come flying up come for come forth come forward come forward with smth. come from come from a good family come full circle come galloping come gushing out with come hell or high water come here come here all of you! come here! come home. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "come": come-all-ye, Come-along, come-and-go, come-and-go people, come-and-go!, come-and-try, come-at-able, come-back, come-backs, come-capital, come-down, come-downance, come-downs, come-every-week, come-first, come-for, come-from-behind, come-hither, come-hither look, come-hithers, come-home-and-all-will-be-forgiven, come-on, come-on-fred-we-give-you-all-this-advertising-how-about-an-in-depth-profile, come-ons, come-out, Come-outer, come-to, Come-to-skegness, come-to-the-doctor, come-uppance, come-uppances, come-what-may.

Ending with "come": first-come.

Containing "come": coaches-come-locomotives, cookbook-come-autobiography, cross-come-shot, Developer-come-oem, don't-come-here, dream-come-true, first-come-first-serve, first-come-first-served, hard-to-come-by, johnny-come-lately, jukebox-come-end, line-up-outside-the-door-and-you-can't-come-in-until-you're-quiet, living-come-dining, odd-come-short, odd-come-shortly, odd-come-shorts, oral-aggressive-anal-retentive-come-and-see-me-five-times-a-week-for-years-at-vast-expense-or-how-do-i-know-you're-really-committed, Peasant-cuisine-come-to-kensington, soldiers-come-home, un-come-at-able, we-come-from-place-bilong-far-on-big-bird-that-doesn't-go-flap, whatever-negative-description-you-can-come-up-with, what's-your-name-then-and-where-do-you-come-from-you-bloody-foreigner, when-will-it-come-down.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Come

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.
 
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ExpressionFrequency
per Day

come doing just like people see thousand

529

around come day green i lyrics when

63

come

462

come and on and over and lyrics

60

come on over

304

away come jones lyrics norah

58

what dream may come

203

aaliyah come over

56

kingdom come

187

aaliyah come lyrics over

53

come away with me

184

when i come around

50

come undone

159

baby come back

50

come on eileen

148

come close

49

come what may

148

come.to crash

49

a new day has come

128

come now is the time to worship

48

come eileen lyrics

114

best is yet to come

48

come back to me

113

come dream had lyrics never true

48

come as you are

111

come into my world

47

come what may lyrics

110

come on in

47

dream come true

96

come together

47

away come lyrics

92

come along with me

46

never had a dream come true

84

come lyrics together

45

aaliyah come lp lyrics over version

72

shes come undone

45

can i come over

69

here come the bride

43

come away with me norah jones

66

come robbie undone williams

43
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Come

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

Afrikaans

  

kom (arrive, let). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

ngjet (become, fall out, happen, transpire), bëhet (proceed), disponohet, filloj (begin, commence, develop, embark, enter, fall into, fall on, fall to, get, get down, initiate, lead off, open, originate, rise, set about, set in, set to, set up, start, strike up), gjendet (lie), hyj (come in, enter, get in, go, go in, penetrate, perform, shrink, soak, turn in), kam radhën, kap shumën (total), arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch), mbërrij (appear, arrive, draw in, get, show up, turn up), vij nga (come from, hail from), rezulton (ensue, flow from, prove), rrjedh (accrue, arise, come from, course, derive, descend, dote, escape, flow, flow down, flow from, flux, leak, ooze, outflow, proceed, pump, result, run, spring, trickle), shkaktohem, shndërrohet, sillem si (act), vij (arrive, fall, roll by), vij në mendje, luaj (act, enact, fidget with, fool about, fool around, game, interpret, palter, perform, personate, play, playact, toy, twiddle, wiggle, wriggle). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تحدر من (descend, issue), ‏دخل مرحلة كذا, ‏أصاب (bilge, blast, get, hit, infect, inflict, pick off, shoot, strike), ‏أتى (came, derive), ‏جاء (arrive, bring, came, turn up), ‏خطر (adventurous, advise, awkward, challenge, critical, danger, dangerous, embargo, fear, give smb. notice, hazard, importance, jeopardy, parlous, peril, perilous, poisonous, prohibition, proscription, risk, risky, unhealthy), ‏خفق (baulk, beat, beating, bust, collapse, come to grief, dilute, fall, fizzle out, flap, flummox, flunk, go by the board, go wrong, goof, misfire, miss, muddle, pit-a-pat, pound, pulsate, pulsation, throb, whip), ‏عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come across, conceive, couch, cross, emit, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, ventilate, voice), ‏بلغ (accomplish, amount, amount to, attain, break, compass, find, reach, run to), ‏سير نحو النضج, سبق (get, go, to be), ‏حدث (befall, calamity, come about, come by, come off, disaster, episode, event, fall out, flow, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, place, rise, take place, transpire, work, young, youngish, youngling, youngster), ‏حضر (assist, attend, bring, call in, civilize, elaborate, fetch, make, prepare, present, report, send around, turn up), ‏وصل (arrive, attain, befall, butt, check, conduct, connect, convey, hook up, joining, joint, ligature, link, make, mark, plumb, reach, receive, result, roll in, show up, steer, touch, voucher), ‏وقع (be located, befall, come off, drop, dwell, fall, ground smb., happen, land, locate, place, position, rhythm, run, set one's hand to, sign, sign up, site, strike, subscribe, supervene, take place, tumble, underwrite), ‏وقع ضمن, ‏وفق (according to, arrive, quadrate), ‏قدم (advance, age, antiquity, arrive, be age-old, become old, become timeworn, bring forward, bring out, chip, come back, display, extend, foot, get to, give in, move forward, obsolescence, offer, peg, precede, present, produce, proffer, reach, return, set forth, show, submit, tender, turn in), ‏كان من أبناء بلد واحد, ‏ساوى (amount, contain, count, crop, equal, equalize). (various references)