come
Because it is a word with a single syllable, come is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofcome
- Coming, arrival; approach.
- Semen
- Female ejaculatory discharge.
- To move from further away to nearer to.
Example: "She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes [...]"
- To arrive.
- To appear, to manifest itself.
Example: "The pain in his leg comes and goes."
- (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
Example: "She came to think of that country as her home."
- (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
Example: "Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered?"
- To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
Example: "Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn."
- To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
Example: "He came after a few minutes."
- (with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
Example: "One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart."
- (with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
Example: "He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits."
- (fossil word) To become, to turn out to be.
Example: "He was a dream come true."
- To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
Example: "A new sports car doesn't come cheap."
- To carry through; to succeed in.
Example: "You can't come any tricks here."
- Happen.
Example: "This kind of accident comes when you are careless."
- (with from or sometimes of) To have as an origin, originate.
- (of grain) To germinate.
- To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.
Example: "Don't come the innocent victim. We all know who's to blame here."
- Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.
Example: "Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on."
- An exclamation to express annoyance.
Example: "Come come! Stop crying. Come now! You must eat it."
- An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
Example: "Come come! You can do it. Come now! It won't bite you."
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