come to

verb

1. to regain consciousness or return to one's normal state

2. (adverb) nautical to slow a vessel or bring her to a stop

3. (preposition) to amount to (a sum of money)

   your bill comes to four pounds

4. (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

After a few years of fruitful grinding, she came to L.A. to “see how high the ceiling was,” she says, and quickly fell in with a group of musician friends.

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Loews Regency New York – It’s easy to come to expect tiny hotel rooms in New York City, but the Luxury King room at the Loews Regency hotel was absolutely massive.

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"The main part of it when it comes to religion is being right with God, rather than being self-righteous."

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You can also put some more effort into bargain hunting when it comes to splurges like those soccer jerseys you mentioned.

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This position changed after Charles came to the throne.

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