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Came

preposition
/keɪm/
Word Frequency: 253.2

Definitions

1.prepositionUsed to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation
2.verbTo move from further away to nearer to.
"She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]"
3.verbTo arrive.
4.verbTo appear, to manifest itself.
"The pain in his leg comes and goes."
5.verb(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
"She came to think of that country as her home."
6.verb(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
"Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?"
7.verbTo take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
"Which letter comes before Y?   Winter comes after autumn."
8.verbTo achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
"He came after a few minutes."
9.verb(with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
"One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart."
10.verb(with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
"He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits."
11.verb(fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
"He was a dream come true."
12.verbTo be supplied, or made available; to exist.
"A new sports car doesn't come cheap."
13.verbTo carry through; to succeed in.
"You can't come any tricks here."
14.verbHappen.
"This kind of accident comes when you are careless."
15.verb(with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
16.verb(of grain) To germinate.
17.verbTo pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
"Don't come the innocent victim. We all know who's to blame here."
18.verbTo have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
19.verbTo ejaculate.

Synonyms

arrivedbycamewhengotbroketookwentrangrewshowedrode

Antonyms

departexitfleegoleaveretreatwithdraw

Rhymes With

proclaimdameframeexclaimshameacclaimaflameflame
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