come to the fore

1. 1.

   make oneself visible; take action

   “Young people should step to the fore and help their peers”

   Synonymsstep forwardcome forwardstep upstep to the forecome out

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Questions about come to the fore

What does come to the fore mean?

come to the fore means "make oneself visible; take action".

What is another word for come to the fore?

Close synonyms include step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore, come out. 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 the fore a common word?

come to the fore 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.