# come

Pronunciation: say "KUM" /kʌm/

## Verb

1. To move or travel toward the speaker, the listener, or the person or place being talked about.
   - Simple: To move toward the person speaking or toward the place being talked about.
   - _Come and sit by me._
   - _Could you come to my office when you have a minute?_
2. To arrive or reach the place in question.
   - Simple: To arrive.
   - _What time will the train come?_
   - _The pizza took ages, and when it finally came, it was cold._
3. To begin at a place, or to stem or radiate from it.
   - Simple: To start from a place, as a river or road does.
   - _The wind is coming from the north today._
   - _Most of the noise seemed to come from the cellar._
4. To approach or reach a particular state, named by the word that follows.
   - Simple: To get into, or close to, a certain state, described by the word after it.
   - _The knot will come undone if you pull it._
   - _The screws on this shelf keep coming loose._
5. To happen, occur, or take place.
   - Simple: To happen.
   - _Change will come whether we like it or not._
   - _The moment came sooner than anyone expected._
6. To be supplied, made available, or found to exist.
   - Simple: To be available or made in a certain kind or way.
   - _These jackets come in four sizes._
   - _Good advice rarely comes free._
7. To be from a particular place, family, social background, or organization, as one's home, origin, or previous employer.
   - Simple: To have a certain home, family, or background, as in 'She comes from Ohio.'
   - _He comes from a village near Lyon._
   - _People who come from the coast never quite settle inland._
8. To appear, make itself felt, or produce a reaction by appearing.
   - Simple: To show up or be felt, or to make someone feel a certain way.
   - _Memories come unbidden at night._
   - _Her resignation came as no surprise._
9. With an infinitive, to reach the point of doing, feeling, or being something, gradually or by chance, as in come to love or how did you come to be here.
   - Simple: Followed by to and a verb, to end up doing or feeling something, slowly or by chance.
   - _In time you will come to love the quiet._
   - _I came to see that she was right._
10. To take a particular position in a sequence.
   - Simple: To have a certain place in an order or list.
   - _In the alphabet, M comes immediately before N._
   - _In this song, two short verses come before the first chorus._
11. With to, to approach a subject with a particular attitude or background.
   - Simple: To approach a subject from a certain point of view.
   - _She came to poetry as an engineer, more interested in how a poem was built than in how it felt._
   - _Readers who come to Joyce expecting a plot are disappointed._
12. To reach a specified total, or to have a specified price or cost.
   - Simple: To add up to a certain total, or to cost a certain amount.
   - _Once you add fees and a tip, the delivery order will come to about sixty dollars._
   - _The new model comes in at roughly half the price of last year's version._
13. To reach orgasm or ejaculate. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To have an orgasm or ejaculate.
   - _They talked frankly about how long it took him to come._
   - _The scene ends as she comes, the camera looking away._
15. Informal, chiefly British: to act in a particular way or try to pull off a trick, as in don't come the innocent with me. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: To pretend to be a certain way or try a trick, as in Don't come the innocent with me.
   - _Don't come the expert with me; you've only read one book on it._
   - _She was coming the grand dame over the neighbors._

## Preposition

14. Used before a stated time to mean at or after that time.
   - Simple: When the time named right after it arrives.
   - _Come spring, the whole valley turns green._
   - _Come Monday, the offer expires._

## Noun

17. Slang for the fluid ejaculated at orgasm, especially semen. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A rude word for the fluid that comes out of the body at orgasm.
   - _He noticed a patch of dried come on the hotel towel and called the front desk._
   - _He wiped the come away and said nothing._

## Interjection

16. Used to urge, encourage, or reassure someone, or to show mild impatience or disapproval, as in Come, come, no tears. *(dated)*
   - Simple: Said to urge or calm someone, or to show you are a little impatient with them.
   - _Come, let us try once more._
   - _Come now, one more step and we're there._

## Other meanings

- (verb) Of grain, to germinate or sprout.
- (verb) Of milk or cream being churned, to turn into butter: when butter does refuse to come.
- (noun) The act of arriving or drawing near.
- (noun) In medieval writing, a raised dot used as a punctuation mark with roughly the force of a colon.

## Origin

"Come" comes from Middle English "comen," from Old English "cuman," from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną ("to come"), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷem- ("to step"). It is related to German "kommen," Dutch "komen," and Swedish "komma," and through the same ancient root to Latin "veniō" ("to come, arrive").

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