to come into the world
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2.4
- phrasal verb
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nacer
- She was excited to see her baby come into the world after nine months of waiting.
- human beings coming into the world
And but we do come into the world prone to anxiety.
- And but we do come into the world prone to anxiety.
- So my hearing was destroyed before I came into the world.
- I look at people who are really certain of their beliefs, their ideas, They, they come into the world with this sense of authority.
- We don't come into the world with all of our faculties operating at their highest level.
- That's a that's a prediction that I learned as a child that I, I did not come into the world with a brain that knew that relationship between objects and gravity.
- So I came into the world with, you know, another human.
- But I had five years to work on some stuff and when he came into the world, it was a stable job.
Examples
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It was like you don't choose where you come into the world or who you come into the world to or your family or your circumstances.
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I was there the night that you came into the world.
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So I came into the world with, you know, another human.
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This is how I came into the world.
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That same day, another child came into the world.
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It's a new life coming into the world.
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And I want you to know who your father was when you came into the world.
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The first girl in the family came into the world at the end of the century.
Fiction book (2000) -
That 's how my brother, Anton, came into the world.
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The moment her second child came into the world, she got her Bachelor's.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
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1.0
To start life as a baby when you come into the world
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3.9
To start to exist
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to be born' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'come' (to move or have origin), 'into' (entering/change of state), and 'world' (the human world), yielding the image of entering the world. This is a literal, compositional pattern found in many languages (e.g. Spanish 'venir al mundo', French 'venir au monde'), so a B1 learner who knows the words will very likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Come into the world paints a simple picture: a baby moves from the dark inside the mother and comes into the bright world outside. So the phrase means 'to be born' or 'to begin one's life'.