come in

1. 1.

   to come or go into

   “the boat entered an area of shallow marshes”

   Synonymsenterget intoget ingo intogo inmove into

   Narrowertake the fieldpenetratere-enterfile inpop inwalk incall attake waterturn inboard
2. 2.

   be received

   “News came in of the massacre in Rwanda”

   Synonymscome

   Broaderarrive
3. 3.

   come into fashion; become fashionable

   Antonymsgo out

   Broaderchange

   fashion

4. 4.

   to insert between other elements

   “She interjected clever remarks”

   Synonymsinterjectinterposeput inthrow ininject

   Broaderinterrupt
5. 5.

   take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal

   “Jerry came in third in the Marathon”

   Synonymsplacecome out

   Broaderrank

Questions about come in

What does come in mean?

come in means "to come or go into". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for come in?

Close synonyms include enter, get into, get in, go into, go in. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of come in?

The recorded antonyms are go out.

Is come in a common word?

come in is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.