to come
- verb
- /kʌm/
- Every month hundreds of claims come to this desk.
- come from natural sources
- come from different places
- come from families
I have a vague idea that all people came from Africa.
- I have a vague idea that all people came from Africa.
- And it, it, it all came from this shift of thinking.
- Well, you know the coming from Northern Illinois.
- This feeling comes from me as a little kid.
Examples
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I should answer, where do you come from?
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But today, more of the world's imported goods come from China than from the United States.
Academic text (2012) -
I just want this to come from within.
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This feeling comes from me as a little kid.
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Where do they all come from?
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The funding for the university's Institute on Disability comes from the federal Administration for Community Living.
Academic text (2017) -
The three versions of "Arirang" used here come from the cities of Miryang, Jindo, and Gyeonggi.
Academic text (2013) -
In Baltimore, for example, 75% of incarcerated residents come from twenty-five of the city's two hundred neighborhoods.
Academic text (2017) -
The funding for the university's Institute on Disability comes from the federal Administration for Community Living.
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Bezos expects 80 percent of Amazon's energy use to come from renewable sources by 2024.
Synonyms
Have origins in a place, family or social group
Start to exist or happen
To start or create something
To come from a place such as a town or country
Come from a place, time, or situation
To start to exist
Idioms
- Informal
Start thinking and acting in a sensible way again after being foolish or upset
- Informal
To be a normal and unavoidable part of a job or situation
- Informal
Reach a point where the result is not decided until the last moment
- Informal
To become more confident and willing to talk to other people
- Informal
A warning that bad behavior on a work trip can lead to punishment at work when you return
- Informal
To tell other people that you practice witchcraft or Pagan beliefs after keeping it secret
- Informal
Things that rise will later fall, for example prices or fortunes
Phrasal Verbs
A thing included with a product as a usual extra, for example a charger with a phone
A result that happens because of something, for example more work after a promotion
Compounds
- Informal
A time when someone faces a hard truth and decides to change what they do
Surface Forms
Etymology
Come comes from the same old idea of moving or appearing, and when we say something 'comes from' a place we mean it 'originates' there, just like a thing that arrives from somewhere else.