Meaning of come | Babel Free
kʌmDefinitions
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Coming, arrival; approach. obsolete, uncountable
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Semen slang, uncountable, vulgar
- Semen ejaculated during orgasm.
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Female ejaculatory discharge. slang, uncountable, vulgar
- To cause to be in conflict or estrangement.
- To acquire, especially as an inheritance: She came into a fortune on her 21st birthday.
- To discover or meet by accident.
- To accompany someone; go along: I'm going to the store; do you want to come with?
- To fail utterly.
- Used as a request to repeat what was said.
- To confess all.
- To punish, oppose, or reprimand severely and often with force: a district attorney who came down hard on drug dealers.
- To become sick with (an illness): came down with the flu.
Equivalents
Examples
““If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women.””
“When a man uses a condom during sex, he takes all of his come with him, preventing her from getting pregnant.”
“There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.”
“Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.”
CEFR level
A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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