came

Pluralcames

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense of come. Use it for the past.

   She came home late after the concert.

   They came to the meeting expecting bad news.

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2. 2
   verbnonstandard

   Nonstandard past participle of come, heard in casual speech after have or had. The standard form is come.

   By noon he had already came and gone.

   She should have came earlier, but the bus was late.

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3. 3
   preposition

   Used before a time or event to show that it finally arrived after a long wait.

   Came the spring thaw, the river overflowed its banks.

   Came winter, the old farmhouse grew cold and quiet.

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4. 4
   verb

   Past tense of cum. Use this form for something that happened in the past.

   He came sooner than he had hoped to.

   She came and then lay still for a while.

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   A grooved metal strip that holds pieces of glass together in a window.

   Like the thin metal lines between the colored pieces of glass in a church window.

   The craftsman cut each came to length before fitting the glass.

   The old window's lead cames had corroded over the years.

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