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Meaning come meaning

What does come mean?
Definitions in simple English

come

To move towards a place or into a place; to move to the place where the person who is talking is. Come to my house and I will give you something to eat. Come here to me. Twenty people came to the party. He came here, but he went away again before you came here.

come

When something happens or arrives. We'll talk again come January.

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come

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 (= arrive, get) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress She arrived home at 7 o'clock She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight 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 reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position 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 The shoes came untied come into contact with a terrorist group his face went red your wish will come true to be the product or result Melons come from a vine Understanding comes from experience be found or available These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled come forth A scream came from the woman's mouth His breath came hard (= hail) be a native of She hails from Kalamazoo extend or reach The water came up to my waist The sleeves come to your knuckles exist or occur in a certain point in a series Next came the student from France cover a certain distance She came a long way happen as a result Nothing good will come of this (= fall) come under, be classified or included fall into a category This comes under a new heading (= amount) develop into This idea will never amount to anything nothing came of his grandiose plans (= come in) be received News came in of the massacre in Rwanda (= occur) come to one's mind; suggest itself It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary A great idea then came to her (= number, add up, amount) add up in number or quantity The bills amounted to $2,000 The bill came to $2,000 have a certain priority My family comes first experience orgasm she could not come because she was too upset (= descend) 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 (= do, make out, get along) 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 (= ejaculate) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

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  • venitive: the agent moves toward the deictic center in order to do something, literally 'be coming to do something'. This may be related to the verb 'to come' and may have future uses as well.

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Simple sentences

I hope he'll be able to come! I'd like to see him.
You must come back before nine o'clock.
You need not have come here so early.
I'll come to your place.
It does not matter to me whether you come or not.
Wait here till I come back.
I hope my dream will come true.
Easy come, easy go.
Come what may, I'm ready for it.
The time has come when we can travel through space.
Come with me, will you?
You may come if you like.
I'll call them tomorrow when I come back.
Why don't you come visit us?
How did you come up with this crazy idea?
Come on! Talk to me, Trang.
Everyone would like to believe that dreams can come true.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Would you like to come?
She would willingly come but she was on vacation.
Who will come with me?
You don't have to come tomorrow.
Come on, play with me, I'm so bored!
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.

Movie subtitles

I'll come to pee again tomorrow.
Then, did he come to find me all the way from Australia?
I'll wait till you come out.
We should come here all the time.
I'll drive Minjoo home and come back.
Even if you like me that much. All the way from Australia. Why would you come all this way?
Won't you come and cheer me up?
You said that if I died, you'd come along with me.
Come to us.
They will come to us.
Come.
There were bandits, Who will come after us.
Please come for immediate evacuation.
Uh, yes. Well then, please come with me for a little bit!
So we've come to an understanding?
I hope you'll help me with everything that's still to come.
At least let me come with you!
What's come over you?!
Henk received an invitation from Prof. Oort, the director of the Leiden Observatory, to come and work with him for a few months.
Where did that radio emission come from?
We always have to be prepared that new perspectives will come that are now beyond our imagination.
We hadn't come to Algeria for this, but to unite the East and the West like we'd sworn to do a few months earlier in Paris.
You'll come around.
I'll come get you.
Come see me tomorrow morning.
A new world could come out of the union of the East and the West.
Come see me whenever you please.
Come on! I only eat bugs when I'm really hungry, like when my mom sleeps in and forgets to pack my lunch.
Oh, come on, J.J., you know I wouldn't touch this shit.
Nick, come on!
Once I knew Johnny was lying to me, I had to come up with a plan. You knew Johnny was lying to you?
He is a good man. Come on.
Frankie, on my father's life, Until you realize our right to share the soccer pitch, we will continue to sting you, and sting you like a swarm of killer bees. Okay, okay, come on, come on.
Today, a very stinky rain will come down on the heads of Frankie and his crew.
Come on, ref!
Come on, guys!
Where do you come from?
I come from up there.

News and current affairs

The third and most damaging flaw, however, is that the spending cuts come in the wrong places.
But where will increased competitiveness come from?
Rarely has a small country been represented by a statesman of such world stature: only Thomas Masaryk and Jan Smuts come to mind to compare with him.
Yet in all probability he would have been even more deeply disappointed in the inability of the Palestinians to come to terms with the existence of the Jewish state.
How it is received may not only determine the state of Israel-Palestine negotiations for a considerable time to come, but Saudi Arabia's domestic peace as well.
To many, myself included, NATO's enlargement to take in, among others, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- which were once Soviet republics -- is an impossible dream come true.
But determination and political will has now made the dreams come true.
It looks increasingly likely that, as under Leonid Brezhnev, we will see the same names in the news for decades to come.
Sometimes, more folkloric details come into play, broadening the members of this cabal to include the Illuminati, the Freemasons, Rhodes Scholars, or, as always, the Jews.
Debt crises tend to come out of the blue, hitting countries whose debt trajectories simply have no room for error or unplanned adversity.
They must begin to come to terms with the crimes committed against others - in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
But the world should not wait for the America to come to its senses.
The first two growth models invariably come to a bad end.
A consensus is emerging that the gap between the US economy's growth potential and its actual performance will remain large for some time to come.
He saw one black male standing inside the house and asked him to come out.
Sarkozy could make that dream come true.
Given the gravity of the economic crisis, the time has come for the EU to demonstrate its strengths whenever possible.
Reducing unemployment is desirable, of course, but many terrorists do not come from poverty.

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