come to light

1. 1.

   be revealed or disclosed

   “The truth finally came to light”

   Synonymscome to hand

   Broaderappear

Questions about come to light

What does come to light mean?

come to light means "be revealed or disclosed".

What is another word for come to light?

Close synonyms include come to hand. 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.

Is come to light a common word?

come to light is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.