Word Type
Come on can be a noun, a verb or an interjection.
come on used as a noun:
- Something intended to attract, as in an advertisement.
"The free offers are just come ons to get you in the store so the sales staff can work on you." - A statement or sometimes action reflecting sexual or relational interest.
"I thought he'd asked me to lunch to discuss business; I wasn't expecting a come on."
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 on used as a verb:
- To show sexual or relational interest through words or sometimes actions
"She started coming on to me as soon as my wife left the room." - To progress, to develop
"The new garden is coming on nicely." - To get one's period, start menstruating.
"Typical. I'm due to come on just after we go on holiday." - To encounter, discover; to come upon.
"Turning the corner, I came on Julia sitting by the riverbank."
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 →
come on used as an interjection:
- An expression of encouragement.
"Come on, George! You can win!" - An expression of disbelief.
"Come on! You can't possibly expect me to believe that." - hurry up
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
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What type of word is come on?
- Noun usage: The free offers are just come ons to get you in the store so the sales staff can work on you.
- Noun usage: I thought he'd asked me to lunch to discuss business; I wasn't expecting a come on.
- Verb usage: She started coming on to me as soon as my wife left the room.
- Verb usage: The new garden is coming on nicely.
- Verb usage: Typical. I'm due to come on just after we go on holiday.
- Verb usage: Turning the corner, I came on Julia sitting by the riverbank.
- Interjection usage: Come on, George! You can win!
- Interjection usage: Come on! You can't possibly expect me to believe that.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of come on 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 on, 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).
