come

verb

1. To move from further away to nearer to.

   “She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]”

2. To move towards the speaker.

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

   “Stop dawdling and come here!”

3. To move towards the listener.

   “Hold on, I'll come in a second.”

   “You should ask the doctor to come to your house.”

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

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

   “Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year.”

5. in subordinate clausesgerundsTo move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.

   “King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming.”

   “He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him.”

6. To move towards an unstated agent.

   “The butler should come when called.”

7. To arrive.

8. To appear, to manifest itself.

   “The pain in his leg comes and goes.”

9. with an infinitiveTo begin to have an opinion or feeling.

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

   “She came to think of that country as her home.”

10. with an infinitiveTo do something by chance, without intending to do it.

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

11. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.

    “Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn.”

12. vulgarslangTo achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

    “He came after a few minutes.”

13. of milkTo become butter by being churned.

14. copulativefigurativelywith closeTo approach a state of being or accomplishment.

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

    “One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart.”

noun

1. vulgarslangSemen

   “When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.”

2. vulgarslangFemale ejaculatory discharge.

3. The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tractbody

   Similar: semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum

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

preposition

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

   “Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests.”

   “Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.”

interjection

1. datedformalAn exclamation to express annoyance.

   “Come come! Stop crying.”

   “Come now! You must eat it.”

2. datedformalAn exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

   “Come come! You can do it.”

   “Come now! It won't bite you.”