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

It was thanks in significant part to Cowell that we came to have the genre we call world music.

From Los Angeles Times

Felix's prediction: When Sunderland came to Craven Cottage last week they let us have a lot of the ball.

From BBC

"You get people who come to it who are fairly new to it - you don't have to be an expert at the start," Mr Arnott said.

From BBC

He added: "I didn't want to breach the manifesto, and that's why we came to the decisions that we did."

From BBC

But when it comes to AI-related risks, there might be times when bonds and stocks move together.

From The Wall Street Journal

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