come up to

1. 1.

   speak to someone

   Synonymsaddressaccost

   Broadercome

   Narrowergreetapproach

Questions about come up to

What does come up to mean?

come up to means "speak to someone".

What is another word for come up to?

Close synonyms include address, accost. 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 up to a common word?

come up to is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.