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come

The correct spelling is come.

How to pronounce come

/kʌm/
noun

IPA: /kʌm/

Say it like: Com-e

The correct spelling is come. Coming, arrival; approach. For example: "She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]"

Usage Examples

She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]

The pain in his leg comes and goes.

She came to think of that country as her home.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.Coming, arrival; approach.
  2. 2.Semen
  3. 3.Female ejaculatory discharge.
  4. 4.The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
  5. 5.A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

verb

  1. 1.To move from further away to nearer to.
  2. 2.To arrive.
  3. 3.To appear, to manifest itself.
  4. 4.(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  5. 5.(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.

preposition

  1. 1.Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.

interjection

  1. 1.An exclamation to express annoyance.
  2. 2.An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

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