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comes

The correct spelling is comes.

How to pronounce comes

/kʌmz/
verb

IPA: /kʌmz/

Say it like: Com-es

The correct spelling is comes. To move from further away to nearer to. 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

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.

noun

  1. 1.The answer to the theme, or dux, in a fugue.

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