come

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
2. (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
3. (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
4. (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
5. (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
6. (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
7. (intransitive) To arrive.
8. (intransitive) To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
9. To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
10. To do something by chance or unintentionally.
11. (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
12. (intransitive, often, slang, vulgar) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
13. (intransitive) To become butter by being churned.
14. (copulative, figuratively) To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
15. (figuratively) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
16. (archaic, copulative) To become, to turn out to be.
17. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
18. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
19. (intransitive) To happen.
20. (intransitive) To have as an origin, originate.
21. (intransitive) To have as an origin, originate.
22. (intransitive) To have as an origin, originate.
23. (intransitive) To have as an origin, originate.
24. (intransitive) To germinate.
25. (informal, transitive) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.

Noun

1. (obsolete, uncountable) Coming, arrival; approach.
2. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Semen
3. (slang, uncountable, vulgar) Female ejaculatory discharge.

Prep

Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.

Intj

1. (dated, formal) An exclamation to express annoyance.
2. (dated, formal) An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

Noun

Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.

Synonyms

arrive

go

reach

approach

get

appear

be

occur

happen

derive

walk

🚶

cum

arrived

coming

originate

become

fall

begin

proceed

add up

enter

amount

result

pass

descend

come up

come in

accrue

arise

come now

turn

attain

total

gain

arrive at

future

follow

come on

spring

succeed

approached

extend

end up

move

number

🔢

attend

climax

draw near

ejaculate

issue

Translations

venir

kommen

venir

venire

arriver

komen

vir

venir

gelmek

venire

llegar

έρχομαι

arrivare

hatin

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kʌm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: comen

Inherited from Old English: cuman

Cognate with Scots: cum

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: kuume

Cognate with Western Frisian: komme

Cognate with Low German: kamen

Cognate with Dutch: komen

Cognate with German: kommen

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: -

Cognate with Danish: komme

Cognate with Swedish: komma

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: -

Cognate with Icelandic: koma

Cognate with Avestan: 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌

Cognate with English: basis

In summary

From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from *gʷem- (“to step”).
Cognates
Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Low German kamen (“to come”), Dutch komen (“to come”), German kommen (“to come”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish komme (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic koma (“to come”).
Cognate from PIE via Latin veniō (“come, arrive”) with many Romance language terms (e.g., French venir, Portuguese vir, Spanish venir), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born, come into the world, arrive”), with terms in Iranian languages (e.g. Avestan 𐬘𐬀𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬍 (jamaⁱtī, “to go”)), via Sanskrit गच्छति (gácchati, “to go”) with many Indic language terms (e.g., Hindi गति (gati)).
Cognate to English basis, from PIE via Ancient Greek.

Sentences

It was so kind of you to come !

Where did it come from then ?

Go now and come here later .

Perhaps she had not come .

I told him that was what I had come here to learn .

As soon as he saw me among the crowd , he called to me to come down .