come to

British  

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?

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come to Idioms  

1. Recover consciousness, as in She fainted but quickly came to . [Second half of 1500s]

2. Arrive at, learn, as in I came to see that Tom had been right all along . [c. 1700]

3. See amount to , def. 2.

4. See when it comes to .

5. 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 .

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

come to

"But it's nice that people come to the village and are respectful when they are here."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

“Basically, you’ve got to come to the conclusion that you have X dollars to live on and that you’re going to bequeath, so what is the amount you could live without?” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Columnist Dawn Gilbertson looks at why airlines’ promises of fast Wi-Fi and other upgrades take so long to come to fruition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

"We didn't come to Haiti to make money, because no one is paying us for that. We came to Haiti to fight against the wicked," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

His old employers on the railroad quickly come to the same conclusion.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

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