to come
- verb
- /kʌm/
- "More and more people are coming into the area of AMS dating," Imamura says hopefully.
- come to understand
- come to realize
- come to know
It's temporary, it will come and it will go.
- It's temporary, it will come and it will go.
- But it still is coming into life through you.
- Egypt did not annex Gaza, but it came under Egypt's jurisdiction.
Examples
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You come to love it, you come to embrace it.
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Transparency, in more recent times, has come to mean the open sharing of information.
Academic text (2015) -
And then I need to come into this cross.
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But it still is coming into life through you.
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I appreciate your coming all this way to see me.
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It's temporary, it will come and it will go.
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And now you have come to the midpoint.
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If we feel unprepared coming into a performance, it adds to the anxiety level.
Academic text (2013) -
The author describes the early-intervention therapists who came to her home within weeks of Henry's birth.
Academic text (2015) -
After years of hard work, you will finally come to understand the true meaning of success.
Synonyms
Reach a decision or understanding
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 appears in the phrase come to with the meaning 'reach', so to say someone 'came to understand' is like saying they 'arrived at' that state or understanding.