come
verb [I] (HAPPEN) /kʌm/ (came, come)Definition
B2 to happen: Spring has come early. The announcement came at a bad time. Her resignation came as quite a shock.informal Come Monday morning (= when it is Monday morning) you'll regret staying up all night. I'm afraid those days are gone and they'll never come again.Occurring and happening
(Definition of come verb (HAPPEN) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- afoot adjective
- assail verb
- attendant adjective
- be at work idiom
- become of sb/sth phrasal verb
- befall verb
- concur verb
- event noun
- follow verb (GO)
- follow verb (HAPPEN)
- go ahead phrasal verb
- go hand in hand with sth idiom
- go together phrasal verb (BE FOUND)
- go with sth phrasal verb (RESULT)
- happen verb (HAVE EXISTENCE)
- materialize verb
- place noun (POSITION)
- return verb (HAPPEN AGAIN)
- turn up phrasal verb (HAPPEN)
- underway adjective
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