Definition of come

"come" in the noun sense

1. semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come

the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

"come" 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 come

Come what may! [ French ]

Out and come again. [ Crabbe ]

Come, slit me this hair. [ Proverb ]

Lightly come, lightly go. [ Proverb ]

First come, first served. [ Proverb ]

Deaths foreseen come not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Keep some till more come. [ Proverb ]

A Daniel come to judgment. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

Come then, expressive Silence. [ Thomson ]

Come, uncalled: sit, unserved. [ Proverb ]

Loans should come laughing home. [ Proverb ]

Lingering labors come to naught. [ Southwell ]

Let the worst come to the worst. [ Cervantes ]

Honor's a lease for life to come. [ Samuel Butler ]

All offenses come from the heart. [ William Shakespeare ]

As proud come behind as go before. [ Proverb ]

Our best thoughts come from others. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Revolutions are not made; they come. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Lay things by, they may come to use. [ Proverb ]

Having is having, come whence it may. [ German Proverb ]

In simple and pure soul I come to you. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good things come to some while asleep. [ French Proverb ]

Borrow not too much upon time to come. [ Proverb ]

Come, give us a taste of your quality. [ William Shakespeare ]

Come and welcome; go by, and no quarrel. [ Proverb ]

Come, crack me this nut, quoth Bumstead. [ Proverb ]

I know he will come by his long tarrying. [ Proverb ]

Do what thou oughtest, and come what can. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Griefs assured are felt before they come. [ John Dryden ]

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. [ Bible ]

Loaves put awry in the oven come out awry. [ Proverb ]

As broken a ship as this has come to land. [ Proverb ]

Let nothing come between you and the light. [ Thoreau ]

A lion may come to be beholding to a mouse. [ Proverb ]

Drink and drought come not always together. [ Proverb ]

I have a good bow, but I cannot come at it. [ Proverb ]

Our worries always come from our weaknesses. [ Joubert ]

Agues come on horseback and go away on foot. [ Proverb ]

Gratitude is a keen sense of favours to come. [ Talleyrand ]

All great men come out of the middle classes. [ Emerson ]

If better were within, better would come out. [ Proverb ]

Both folly and wisdom come upon us with years. [ Proverb ]

Harvest will come, and then every farmers rich. [ Proverb ]

Guests that come by daylight are best received. [ Proverb ]

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. [ William Shakespeare ]

Come, my best friends, my books! and lead me on. [ Cowley ]

A lie begets a lie till they come to generations. [ Proverb ]

Daylight will come, though the cock does not crow. [ Danish Proverb ]

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [ Goethe ]

All are good maids, but whence come the bad wives? [ Proverb ]

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves. [ Rousseau ]

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. [ Prov. 23: 21 ]

A good candle-snuffer may come to be a good player. [ Proverb ]

A day to come shews longer than a year that's gone. [ Proverb ]

Let not him that fears feathers come among wildfowl. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. [ Dante ]

A man may come to market though he do not buy oysters. [ Proverb ]

In love, great pleasures come very near great sorrows. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Harvest comes not every day, though it come every year. [ Proverb ]

He that will enter paradise must come with a right key. [ Proverb ]

A day will come when fair dealing will be found a jewel. [ Proverb ]

It is not good to come near the plague, though to cure it. [ Proverb ]

Come, civil night, thou sober-suited matron, all in black. [ William Shakespeare ]

He confesses himself guilty who refuses to come to a trial. [ Proverb ]

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. [ Spenser ]

If an ass goes a travelling, he will not come home an horse. [ Proverb ]

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardies. [ Daniel ]

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. [ Martial ]

Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land. [ Samuel Bowles ]

It will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. [ Shakespeare ]

Come forth into the light of things; let nature be your teacher. [ Wordsworth ]

Gossips and tale-bearers set afire all the houses they come into. [ Proverb ]

All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Love is a disease that kills nobody, but one whose time has come. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions! [ William Shakespeare ]

The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me. [ Tennyson ]

Flowers that come from a loved hand are more prized than diamonds.

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [ St. Paul ]

Here I and sorrows sit: Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on. [ Dickens ]

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honours. [ Proverb ]

I hope better, quoth Benson, when his wife bade him come in, cuckold. [ Proverb ]

Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. [ William Shakespeare ]

Pleasure may come of illusion, but happiness can only come of reality. [ Chamfort ]

Correction should not respect so much what is past, as what is to come. [ Proverb ]

Better come at the latter end of a feast, than the beginning of a fray. [ Proverb ]

I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much food. [ Sydney Smith ]

It is the nature of experience to come to us only when too late for use. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

Mutability is of this world; in that which is to come there is no change. [ St. Ambrose ]

Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Tell him, there's a post come from my master, with his horn full of news. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good and evil come unexpected to man; even if foretold, we believe it not. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the evil wives? [ Lamb ]

Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. [ Thomas Hood ]

Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. [ Yogi Berra ]

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. [ Bible ]

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies in married life have come from poets. [ Whipple ]

Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come. [ La Roche ]

come in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters come:

COME
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word come

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The 41 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In come

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come in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters come:

COME
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word come

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The 44 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In come

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Words within the letters of come

2 letter words in come (2 words)

4 letter words in come (1 word)

come + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence come

Word Growth involving come

Shorter words in come

me

Longer words containing come

become becomes

become misbecome

brachycome brachycomes

comealong comealongs

comeback comebacks

comedian comedians

comedic comedically

comedienne

comedies tragicomedies

comedietta comediettas

comedo comedogenic

comedo comedone comedones

comedo comedonic noncomedonic

comedo comedos noncomedos

comedo comedown comedowns

comedo noncomedo noncomedonic

comedo noncomedo noncomedos

comedy noncomedy

comedy tragicomedy

comelier

comeliest

comeliness

comely uncomely

comember comembers

comeover comeovers

comer comers firstcomers

comer comers incomers

comer comers latecomers

comer comers newcomers

comer comers welcomers

comer firstcomer firstcomers

comer incomer incomers

comer latecomer latecomers

comer newcomer newcomers

comer sarcomere sarcomeres

comer sarcomeric

comer welcomer welcomers

comes becomes

comes brachycomes

comes comestible comestibles

comes incomes

comes outcomes

comes overcomes

comes welcomes welcomest

comet anthracometer anthracometers

comet apomecometer apomecometers

comet cometabolisation

comet cometabolise cometabolised

comet cometabolise cometaboliser cometabolisers

comet cometabolise cometabolises

comet cometabolising

comet cometabolization

comet cometabolize cometabolized

comet cometabolize cometabolizer cometabolizers

comet cometabolize cometabolizes

comet cometabolizing

comet cometaria

comet cometarium

comet cometary

comet cometic cometical cometically

comet cometlike

comet cometographer

comet cometographic cometographical cometographically

comet cometography

comet cometoid cometoids

comet cometologist cometologists

comet cometology

comet cometomancy

comet cometonym cometonyms

comet comets

comet picometer picometers

comet picometre picometres

comet silicomethane

comet viscometer rheoviscometer rheoviscometers

comet viscometer viscometers rheoviscometers

comet viscometric viscometrical viscometrically

comet viscometric viscometrics

comet viscometries

comet viscometry

comeupance comeupances

comeuppance comeuppances

firstcome firstcomer firstcomers

income incomer incomers

income incomes

nosocomephobe nosocomephobes

nosocomephobia

nosocomephobic nosocomephobics

outcome outcomes

overcome overcomes

overcome unovercomeable

pharmacomechanical pharmacomechanically

phocomelia tetraphocomelia

welcome unwelcome unwelcomed

welcome welcomed unwelcomed

welcome welcomeless

welcome welcomeness

welcome welcomer welcomers

welcome welcomes welcomest