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to come out

to come out

772 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.

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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
∞ 1.8

To make a product or information available to the public

describes becoming available rather than the act of making it public
to put out
vsto come out
716 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 appear
vsto come out
155 2.3

To become available to the public as a book or film

is used for any item becoming publicly available, not only media
published
vsto come out
126 3.0

Made available to the public in print or online

is the general process of becoming publicly available beyond those formats
to unveil
vsto come out
120 4.1

To make something known for the first time

focuses on becoming available to the public rather than ceremonial revealing
to roll out
vsto come out
107 3.9

To introduce a new product or service to the public

means simply to become available without implying an official launch
to just come out
vsto come out
75 3.0

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

covers becoming available at any time, not only very recently
to bring out
vsto come out
22 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
11 3.5

To send updates or new content to users over the internet

is neutral about distribution method, not limited to electronic channels
unveiled
vsto come out
2 4.2

Shown to the public after being kept secret

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

Antonyms

suppressed
29 5.7

Kept secret on purpose so people do not know about it

How Public

to hit the shelves
  • Informal
4 3.9
to release
∞ 1.8
to come out
772 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.