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1. Appear or become visible; make a showing
   "She came out at the funeral";
   - come on, turn up, surface, show up
    
2. Be issued or published
   "The new Woody Allen film hasn't come out yet";
   - appear
    
3. Come out of
   "The words seemed to come out by themselves";
   - issue, emerge, come forth, go forth, egress
    
4. Result or end
   - turn out
    
5. Drop out
   "His hair and teeth came out";
   - fall out
    
6. Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
   "Jerry came out third in the Marathon";
   - place, come in
    
7. Make oneself visible; take action
   "Young people should come out and help their peers";
   - come to the fore, step forward, come forward, step up, step to the fore
    
8. Bulge outward
   "His eyes came out";
   - start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out [US, informal]
    
9. To state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
   "This actor came out of the closet last year"; "This actor came out last year";
   - come out of the closet, out
    
10. Be made known; be disclosed or revealed
    "The truth will come out";
    - out
     
11. Break out
    - erupt, break through, push through

Derived forms: comes out, coming out, come out, came out

Type of: act, appear, break, bring out, cease, change form, change shape, deform, disclose, discover, divulge, end, expose, finish, give away, happen, lay bare, let on, let out, materialise [Brit], materialize, move, rank, reveal, stop, terminate, uncover, unwrap

Encyclopedia: Come out