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come

Pronunciation: /kʌm/

The English word “come” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To move nearer to the point of perspective.
  2. To move toward the speaker.
  3. To move toward the listener.
  4. To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.
  5. To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.
  6. To move toward an unstated agent.
  7. To arrive.
  8. 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. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  12. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  13. To become butter by being churned.
  14. To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
  15. To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  16. To become, to turn out to be (often in set phrases and certain collocations).
  17. To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  18. To carry through; to succeed in.
  19. To happen.
  20. To have a certain social background.

Etymology

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; to arrive”), from *gʷem- (“to come, step”). Cognates Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Yola come, coome, cum (“to come”), North Frisian kaame, kame, keem, kem, kum, kååme, käme (“to come”), Saterland…

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