- present tense form of come (3rd person singular).
comes
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comites
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Astronomy. companion.
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Anatomy. a blood vessel accompanying another vessel or a nerve.
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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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Your advice is sound, particularly as it comes from first-hand experience.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The score is Machines 1-0 Humans - at least when it comes to predicting football results, anyway.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
A national bank and the federal oversight that comes with it will allow for greater transparency and increase confidence in USD1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Harry and Meghan’s U.K. return comes as British and American press are being scrutinized for their skewed coverage of Jason Arday, the youngest Black professor in Cambridge history.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
She goes back inside the classroom and comes out with a black jacket with the Black Alliance logo on it.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
He has organised a band of soldiers, called Danites, a sacred battalion--the celeres of Romulus--these are all comites or counts; their chiefs are conductors, or dukes.
From Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat
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
Camden tells us that Babington had first inscribed beneath the picture this verse:— Hi mihi sunt comites, quos ipsa pericula ducunt.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
They existed, in fact, in Hindostan, China, and many other countries, for centuries before the time of the comites of the German princes, mentioned by Tacitus, who are supposed to have founded them.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
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
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