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come to
verb
to regain consciousness or return to one's normal state
(adverb) nautical to slow a vessel or bring her to a stop
(preposition) to amount to (a sum of money)
your bill comes to four pounds
(preposition) to arrive at (a certain state)
what is the world coming to?
Idioms and Phrases
Recover consciousness, as in She fainted but quickly came to . [Second half of 1500s]
Arrive at, learn, as in I came to see that Tom had been right all along . [c. 1700]
See amount to , def. 2.
See when it comes to .
Stop a sailboat or other vessel by bringing the bow into the wind or dropping anchor, as in “The gale having gone over, we came to” (Richard Dana, Two Years Before the Mast , 1840). [Early 1700s] Also see the subsequent entries beginning with come to .
Example Sentences
Kareem: We came to the opera last year and that was our first time, and we thought let’s go again in the summer.
"The boys come to me and say 'I want to be a European champion'," Gjert explained.
"We are really, really worried that it will also come to the centre of Derry. It's outrageous."
They come to be stretched out more deeply, in positions they couldn’t possibly get into, physically, on their own.
Readers, consumers and audiences haven’t yet come to peace with that, just like we haven’t come to terms with how to separate art from a monstrous artist.
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