- present tense form of come (3rd person singular).
comes
Americannoun
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comites
plural
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Astronomy. companion.
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Anatomy. a blood vessel accompanying another vessel or a nerve.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of comes
1675–85; < Latin: traveling companion, probably < *com-it-s, equivalent to com- com- + -it- noun derivative of īre to go + -s nominative singular ending
Example Sentences
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“I think the question now is: Is he starting to fail himself when it comes to his messaging?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Can you talk about that impulse to make it look medical, and all the obfuscation that comes along with it, and how this attempted execution really blew that up?
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
The BBC's senior journalist Nadine Yousif explains what comes next.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The research comes as people are living longer, with retirements that can last decades, making it important to have structure and social interaction in that stage of life.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
The fact is, regardless of what time she normally comes in, she’s here now.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
There is a parody on this piece of Catullus by the celebrated Huet, Bishop of Avranches— “Bocharti comites cohors inanis.” &c.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
But in these nations the use of horses and armour, at first confined to kings and great chiefs, gradually spread downwards to the ever-growing classes of thegns, comites, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
The master in Gaul, with the duces and comites in the provinces were under his orders.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Again he signed to the "comites" to blow the reveille.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Under the early Frankish kings some comites did not exercise any definite functions; they were merely attached to the king’s person and executed his orders.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
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