Word Type
Come can be a preposition, a noun or a verb.
come used as a preposition:
- when an event has occurred or a time has arrived
"Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoctions to offer your guests."
Prepositions are used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. Examples of prepositions are: in, during, beside, after, for. In the sentence "Sows suffer in factory farms." The preposition "in" tells us the position of the sow relative to the factory farm. Learn more →
come used as a noun:
- Coming, arrival; approach.
- Semen, or female ejaculatory discharge.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
come used as a verb:
- To move from further away to nearer to.
"She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes..." - To arrive
"The guests came at eight o'clock." - To appear, to manifest itself.
"The pain in his leg comes and goes." - To take a position to something else in a sequence.
"Which letter comes before Y?" - To achieve orgasm.
"He came after a few minutes." - (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
"They came very close to leaving on time." - (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
"He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits." - To become, to turn out to be.
"He was a dream come true."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is come?
- Preposition usage: Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoctions to offer your guests.
- Verb usage: She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes...
- Verb usage: The guests came at eight o'clock.
- Verb usage: The pain in his leg comes and goes.
- Verb usage: Which letter comes before Y?
- Verb usage: Winter comes after autumn.
- Verb usage: He came after a few minutes.
- Verb usage: They came very close to leaving on time.
- Verb usage: His test scores came close to perfect.
- Verb usage: He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits.
- Verb usage: He was a dream come true.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of come are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of come, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).