come
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/kʌm/
English
Definitions
noun
- Coming, arrival; approach.
- Semen
- Female ejaculatory discharge.
verb
- To move from further away to nearer to.“She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]”
- To arrive.
- To appear, to manifest itself.“The pain in his leg comes and goes.”
- (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.“She came to think of that country as her home.”
preposition
- Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.“Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on.”
interjection
- An exclamation to express annoyance.“Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it.”
- An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.“Come come! You can do it. Come now! It won't bite you.”
noun
- The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
Related words
Synonyms
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