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say it: kuhm
come is a verb and noun meaning "move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody". It carries 22 recorded senses.
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”
be found or available
“These shoes come in three colors; The furniture comes unassembled”
the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for come come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.