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came

verbprepositionnountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • Canada//ˈkeɪ̯m//
  • Canada/[ˈkʰeɪ̯m]/
  • Australia//ˈkæ̝ɪ̯m//
  • //ˈkeːm//
  • /[ˈkʰeːm]/

Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of comesimple past of come

  2. 2

    Also a form of comepast participle of come

    With that army the British army, in the course of its operations, must have came in contact; and, if that were likely, (may rather if it was impossible to avoid it.) I will ask, whether, under all the circumstances of Europe[…]

    Thailand's expansion of access to secondary and tertiary education is unlikely to have came at the expense of quality. International achievement test^([sic]) show Thai students consistently outperforming not just Indonesia, whose per capita national income is less than half of Thailand's[…]

    I don't know why her ass couldn't have just waited until I had got ready so we could have came together. It's bad enough I even have to be in this mothafucka.

  3. 3

    Also a form of cumsimple past of cum

Etymology

See come.

preposition

  1. 1

    Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation

    Came Christmas by which, at the outset, everybody knew it would be over, and it was not over. Came June, 1915, concerning which, at the outset, he had joined with Mr. Fortune, Twyning and Harold in laughter at his own grotesque idea of the war lasting to the dramatic effect of a culminating battle on the centenary of Waterloo, and the war had lasted, and was still lasting.

noun

  1. 1

    A grooved strip of metal, traditionally usually lead or brass and today sometimes stainless steel, used to hold panes of glass together in glazing.

Etymology

Attested from the 17th century, of unknown origin. Possibly from kame (“a ridge”). Compare Scots came (“comb”), Scots kame (“combing; a ridge”), and Middle English camet (“silver”).

Forms

plural
cames
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).