🔍 To be revealed 📚 To be released 🌸 To appear 🏳️‍🌈 To reveal identity 🥇 To finish first 🦷 To fall off

to come out

563 3.0

To become available to the public, for example when a book or album is released

phrasal verb
/kʌm aʊt/

: publicarse

Listen to the music that has come out of Harlem and the West Indies.
a book comes out
first to come out
just came out

And then the day the movie came out, Vine was erased.

Autoplay Next

Examples

His first game will come out next year.
I have a new app which is coming out in December.
Well, do you know what else came out this year?
And once Escape Room came out, things started to pick up.

Film Courage
The summer before the book came out, he said he had something he wanted to tell me.

Academic text (2011)
I do have a good paper coming out in Nature magazine in August.

Fiction book (1993)
After the book came out, the publishers and I decided it needed a Facebook page.

Academic text (2011)
And what I'm hoping is you, the viewers, will come out and enjoy this place.

A Town Full of Ghosts (2022)
An ABA task force has recently come out with some proposed standards of its own.

Academic text (1997)
The latest report will come out next Monday, providing insights into the economic outlook.

Synonyms

to publish

vsto come out

∞ 3.3

Make a book or article available to the public

focuses on the end result of becoming available rather than the preparation

to release

vsto come out

925 1.8

To make a product or information available to the public

describes becoming available rather than the act of making it public

to appear

vsto come out

288 2.3

To become available to the public as a book or film

is used for any item becoming publicly available, not only media

to put out

vsto come out

255 3.6

Publish something like a book or magazine for people to buy

describes the state of being available rather than the act of issuing

to unveil

vsto come out

109 4.1

To make something known for the first time

focuses on becoming available to the public rather than ceremonial revealing

to just come out

vsto come out

50 3.0

To become available very recently, for example a book or film

covers becoming available at any time, not only very recently

to roll out

vsto come out

43 3.9

To introduce a new product or service to the public

means simply to become available without implying an official launch

to bring out

vsto come out

12 2.7

Make a product, book or film available to the public

is broader, covering becoming available without a formal introduction

to push out

vsto come out

Jargon

8 3.5

To send updates or new content to users over the internet

is neutral about distribution method, not limited to electronic channels

published

vsto come out

3.0

Made available to the public in print or online

is the general process of becoming publicly available beyond those formats

unveiled

vsto come out

4.2

Shown to the public after being kept secret

highlights availability to the public, not only the act of revealing

Antonyms

suppressed

5.7

Kept secret on purpose so people do not know about it

How Public

to hit the shelves

Informal

3 3.9

to release

925 1.8

to come out

563 3.0

to announce

∞ 1.5

Surface Forms

come out infinitive

coming out present participle

comes out third person singular

came out past

come out past participle

Morphology

come + out

The sense 'to become detached or emerge' follows directly from combining 'come' (to move or appear) with the particle 'out' (to the outside, emergence or removal); the particle adds the idea of emerging or being removed, so the overall meaning is compositionally predictable. This motion/particle pattern is common in English (and mirrored in many other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will typically infer the meaning.

Etymology

Come out may come from the image of a book or record coming out of a printing press and into shops. So come out means 'to be released' to the public.