Definition of came

"came" in the verb sense

1. come, come up

move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody

"He came singing down the road"

"Come with me to the Casbah"

"come down here!"

"come out of the closet!"

"come into the room"

2. arrive, get, come

reach a destination arrive by movement or progress

"She arrived home at 7 o'clock"

"She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

3. come

come to pass arrive, as in due course

"The first success came three days later"

"It came as a shock"

"Dawn comes early in June"

4. come

reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position

"The water came to a boil"

"We came to understand the true meaning of life"

"Their anger came to a boil"

"I came to realize the true meaning of life"

"The shoes came untied"

"come into contact with a terrorist group"

"his face went red"

"your wish will come true"

5. come, follow

to be the product or result

"Melons come from a vine"

"Understanding comes from experience"

6. come

be found or available The furniture comes unassembled"

"These shoes come in three colors

7. issue forth, come

come forth

"A scream came from the woman's mouth"

"His breath came hard"

8. hail, come

be a native of

"She hails from Kalamazoo"

9. come

extend or reach

"The water came up to my waist"

"The sleeves come to your knuckles"

10. come

exist or occur in a certain point in a series

"Next came the student from France"

11. come

cover a certain distance

"She came a long way"

12. fall, come

come under, be classified or included

"fall into a category"

"This comes under a new heading"

13. come

happen as a result

"Nothing good will come of this"

14. total, number, add up, come, amount

add up in number or quantity

"The bills amounted to $2,000"

"The bill came to $2,000"

15. come, add up, amount

develop into

"This idea will never amount to anything"

"nothing came of his grandiose plans"

16. come, come in

be received

"News came in of the massacre in Rwanda"

17. occur, come

come to one's mind suggest itself

"It occurred to me that we should hire another secretary"

"A great idea then came to her"

18. derive, come, descend

come from be connected by a relationship of blood, for example

"She was descended from an old Italian noble family"

"he comes from humble origins"

19. do, fare, make out, come, get along

proceed or get along

"How is she doing in her new job?"

"How are you making out in graduate school?"

"He's come a long way"

20. come

experience orgasm

"she could not come because she was too upset"

21. come

have a certain priority

"My family comes first"

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Quotations for came

I came, saw, and overcame. [ Shakespeare ]

That cake came out of my oven. [ Proverb ]

You came a day after the fair. [ Proverb ]

Not as a vulture, but a dove,
The Holy Ghost came from above. [ Longfellow, after Fuller ]

Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman,
Who came of decent people. [ Henry Bennett ]

A light broke in upon my soul -
It was the carol of a bird;
It ceased - and then it came again
The sweetest song ear ever heard. [ Byron ]

Our best thought came from others. [ Emerson ]

Where did you get that pearly ear?
God spoke and it came out to hear. [ George MacDonald ]

Around the mighty master came
The marvels which his pencil wrought
Those miracles of power whose fame
Is wide as human thought. [ Whittier ]

In blissful dream, in silent night.
There came to me, with magic might,
With magic might, my own sweet love,
Into my little room above. [ Heine ]

All came from and will go to others. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears. [ William Shakespeare ]

That bolt never came out of your quiver. [ Proverb ]

You came as seasonably as snow in summer. [ Proverb ]

Love is indestructible,
Its holy flame forever burneth;
From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. [ Southey ]

A change came over the spirit of my dream. [ Byron ]

Now sunk the sun; the closing hour of day,
Came onward, mantled over with sober grey;
Nature in silence bid the world repose. [ Parnell ]

But with the morning cool repentance came. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Morn, in the white wake of the morning star,
Came, furrowing all the orient into gold. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray,
Had in her sober livery all things clad. [ Milton ]

You set saffron and there came up wolfs-bane. [ Proverb ]

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray. [ Goldsmith ]

With as good a will as ever I came from school. [ Proverb ]

O days remembered well! remembered all!
The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall;
Those garden rambles in the silent night.
Those trees so shady, and that moon so bright.
That thickset alley by the arbor closed.
That woodbine seat where we at last reposed;
And then the hopes that came and then were gone.
Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on. [ Crabbe ]

He that first came is not sure to be first served. [ Proverb ]

In came Mrs. Pezziwig, one vast substantial smile. [ Dickens ]

You came for wool but shall return shorn yourself. [ Proverb ]

At last the golden oriental gate
Of greatest heaven began to open fair;
And Phoebus, fresh as bridegroom to his mate,
Came dancing forth shaking his dewy hair,
And hurled his glistering beams through gloomy air. [ Spenser ]

Now began
Night with her sullen wing to double-shade
The desert; fowls in their clay nests were couched.
And now wild beasts came forth, the woods to roam. [ Milton ]

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from. [ Proverb ]

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead.
(Strange dream! that gives a dead man leave to think)
And breath'd such life with kisses in my lips
That I reviv'd, and was an emperor. [ William Shakespeare ]

I never whisper'd a private affair
Within the hearing of cat or mouse,
No, not to myself in the closet alone,
But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house;
Everything came to be known. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

He came safe from the East Indies, and was drowned in the Thames. [ Proverb ]

Then came your new friend: you began to change - I saw it and grieved. [ Tennyson ]

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. [ Geo. MacDonald ]

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people. [ Carlyle ]

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. [ Shakespeare ]

When love came first to earth, the spring spread rose-beds to receive him. [ Campbell ]

And out of darkness came the hands That reach through nature, moulding men. [ Tennyson ]

And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering over his aged brain. [ Scott ]

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. [ Barton Holyday ]

As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. [ Pope ]

As hasty as Hopkins, that came to jail over-night, and was hanged the next morning. [ Proverb ]

The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. [ Homer ]

Death came with friendly care, the opening bud to heaven conveyed, and bade it blossom there. [ Coleridge ]

I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came. [ Lincoln ]

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. [ Charles Lamb ]

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life. [ George MacDonald ]

O, it came over my ear like the sweet south, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odor! [ William Shakespeare ]

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. [ Charles Dudley Warner ]

Thus came the lovely spring, with a rush of blossoms and music, flooding the earth with flowers and the air with melodies vernal. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, I came, I saw, I conquered. [ Lavater ]

It would take long to enumerate how great an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated; even the report itself came short of the truth. [ Ovid ]

The bride, lovely herself, and lovely by her side a bevy of bright nymphs, with sober grace came glittering like a star, and took her place. [ Dryden ]

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence. [ Swift ]

When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, the gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said, Hey, good job. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

The old pool shooter has won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did all the other cues came crashing to the floor. Sorry, he said with a smile. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, I swallowed it. So sue me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia. [ Plato ]

The brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. [ Holmes ]

How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee! And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open, I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow. [ Tome Burguillos ]

As Plato entertained some friends in a room where there was a couch richly ornamented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as usual, and getting upon the couch, and trampling on it, said, I trample upon the pride of Plato. Plato mildly answered, But with greater pride, Diogenes! [ Erasmus ]

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners. [ Whipple ]

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. [ Lowell ]

The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion, - Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, - of Immortality! [ Charles Dickens ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

came in Scrabble®

The word came is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters came:

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came in Words With Friends™

The word came is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Words within the letters of came

2 letter words in came (4 words)

3 letter words in came (2 words)

4 letter words in came (Anagrams) (3 words)

came + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving came

Shorter words in came

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Longer words containing came

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