come

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to be found or available

   These shoes come in three colors

2. 2
   verb

   to happen as a result

   Nothing good will come of this

3. 3
   verb

   to have a certain priority

   My family comes first

4. 4
   verb

   to cover a certain distance

   I came three hundred miles for the party.

5. 5
   verb

   to experience orgasm

   They could not come because they were too upset.

6. 6
   verb

   to be the product or result

   Melons come from a vine

7. 7
   verb

   to exist or occur in a certain point in a series

   They come next.

8. 8
   verb

   To move nearer to the point of perspective.

   She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […]

Etymology

From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step; to arrive”), from *gʷem- (“to come, step”). Cognates Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Yola come, coome, cum (“to come”), North Frisian kaame, kame, keem, kem, kum, kååme, käme (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kume, kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Alemannic German cha, cheemen, cheme, cho, chomu, chéeme (“to come”), Bavarian ckeman, kemma, kemman, khemen, kumma, kumman, kèmmin (“to…