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• past tense form of come.

came

¹ American  

[keym] / keɪm /

verb

1. simple past tense of come.

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came ² American  

[keym] / keɪm /

noun

1. a slender, grooved bar of lead for holding together the pieces of glass in windows of latticework or stained glass.

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came ¹ British  

/ keɪm /

verb

1. the past tense of come

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came ² British  

/ keɪm /

noun

1. a grooved strip of lead used to join pieces of glass in a stained-glass window or a leaded light

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Etymology

Origin of came

First recorded in 1680–90; special use of came “ridge”; see comb, kame ¹

Example Sentences

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came

Those in the firing line came from various branches of the military.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Conservation scientists may be able to analyze confiscated scales, determine which pangolin species they came from, and then use that information to identify regions where poaching pressure is especially intense.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Dolly’s final public appearance came in June when, true to her entrepreneurial form, she appeared at the opening of Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop, a Southern-friend truck stop designed to compete with the popular chain Buc-ee’s.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Durable-goods orders rose 1.1% for July and the second estimate of second-quarter gross domestic product came in unchanged at 1.5%.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

“How did the dinner with your dad’s new girl go? Did you get a Flash about what she’d be like before she came over?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold