English Dictionary

come

/kʌm/

verb

To move towards the speaker. / To move towards the listener. / To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.

Come here, please.

意味（1）

To move towards the speaker.

I called the dog, but she wouldn't come.

意味（2）

To move towards the listener.

Hold on, I'll come in a second.

意味（3）

To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.

No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit.

意味（4）

(in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.

King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.

意味（5）

To move towards an unstated agent.

The butler should come when called.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To arrive.

Late at night comes Mr. Hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from Chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon "The Royal James," "Oake," and "London," burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships: […]

Late at night comes Mr. Hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from Chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon The Royal James, Oake, and London, burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships: […] This passage uses the historical present tense.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.

The pain in his leg comes and goes.

意味（8）

(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.

We came to believe that he was not so innocent after all.

意味（9）

(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.

Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?

意味（10）

(intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.

Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.

意味（11）

(intransitive, vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

Nick was more and more seriously absorbed, but then just before he came he had a brief vision of himself, as if the trees and bushes had rolled away and all the lights of London shone in on him: little Nick Guest from Barwick, Don and Dot Guest's boy, fucking a stranger in a Notting Hill garden at night.

意味（12）

(intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.

意味（13）

(copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.

They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect.

意味（14）

(figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.

He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.

意味（15）

(copulative, fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.

He was a dream come true.

意味（16）

(intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.

He's as tough as they come.

意味（17）

(slang) To carry through; to succeed in.

You can't come any tricks here.

意味（18）

(intransitive) Happen.

This kind of accident comes when you are careless.

意味（19）

To have a certain social background.

While Kate Roberts came from a poor background and, later in life, in the post-Second World War period suffered from severe money shortages, in the early 1930s, she and her husband must have counted themselves relatively well off, particularly in comparison with their neighbours in Tonypandy.

意味（20）

To be or have been a resident or native.

Where did you come from?

意味（21）

To have been brought up by or employed by.

She comes from a good family.

意味（22）

To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).

The river comes from Bear Lake.

意味（23）

(intransitive, of grain) To germinate.

意味（24）

(transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.

Don’t come the innocent victim. We all know who’s to blame here.