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1. 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";
   - come up
    
2. Reach a destination by movement or progress
   "She came home at 7 o'clock";
   - arrive, get
    
3. Happen, arrive
   "The first success came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes early in June"
    
4. 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"; "your wish will come true"
    
5. To be the product or result
   "Melons come from a vine"; "Understanding comes from experience";
   - follow
    
6. Be found or available
   "These shoes come in three colours; The furniture comes unassembled"
    
7. Be emitted
   "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His breath came hard";
   - issue forth
    
8. Be a native of
   "She comes from Kalamazoo";
   - hail
    
9. Extend or reach
   "The water came up to my waist"; "The sleeves come to your knuckles"
    
10. Exist or occur in a certain point in a series
    "Next came the student from France"
     
11. Cover a certain distance
    "She came a long way"
     
12. Come under, be classified or included
    "This comes under a new heading";
    - fall
     
13. Happen as a result
    "Nothing good will come of this"
     
14. Add up in number or quantity
    "The bill came to $2,000";
    - total, number, add up, amount
     
15. To measure up to in kind or quality
    "nothing came of his grandiose plans";
    - add up, amount
     
16. Be received
    "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda";
    - come in
     
17. Come to one's mind; suggest itself
    "A great idea then came to her";
    - occur
     
18. Be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
    "he comes from humble origins";
    - derive, descend
     
19. Perform, succeed or manage over a period of time
    "He's come a long way";
    - do, fare, make out, get along
     
20. [informal] Experience orgasm
    "she could not come because she was too upset"
     
21. Have a certain priority
    "My family comes first"

1. The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
   - semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate

Sounds like: cum

Derived forms: come, comes, coming

Type of: arise, be, become, bodily fluid, body fluid, change, come about, develop, ensue, exist, experience, extend, fall out, go, go on, go through, grow, hap [archaic], happen, humor [US], humour [Brit, Cdn], lead, liquid body substance, locomote, move, occur, originate, pass, pass off, proceed, rank, result, rise, run, see, spring up, take place, travel, turn, uprise

Antonym: leave

Encyclopedia: Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing