Meanings
present singular third person comes with · participle present coming with · past came with
- South AfricainformalintransitiveUpper Midwestern USTo join and come along.
We’re going out to lunch. Do you want to come with?
- Synonym of come up with (“to manage to produce something by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it”).
He had to come with an idea to end bullying.
Synonyms: come up with
Synonyms & antonyms
verbSynonym of come up with (“to manage to produce something by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it”).
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Origin
From a substrate of several Germanic immigrant languages that feature the same construction. Compare Dutch meekomen, German mitkommen, Norwegian komme med, Swedish komma med for the Midwest, and Afrikaans saamkom for South Africa. Compare regional French venir avec with the same substrate influence.
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