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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

Came off with an ankle injury in the second half.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

On Monday evening, Trump posted on social media an image of a protester dressed in a frog costume holding a sign that said, “First They Came for the Algae.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

Marcus Rashford: Came central to receive the ball a lot as Spence provided the width on the England left.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

And here, the classic 1958 Messengers band lives on via three songs: tenor saxophonist Benny Golson’s smooth-grooving “Along Came Betty,” and his martial-themed “Blues March,” and Timmons’s “Moanin’.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Came by to see you earlier, but you weren’t there.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven