COME ABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come about mean? 

• COME ABOUT (verb)
  The verb COME ABOUT has 1 sense:

1. come to pass

  Familiarity information: COME ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME ABOUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come to pass

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place

Context example:

Nothing occurred that seemed important

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come about"):

recur; repeat (happen or occur again)

contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)

turn out (prove to be in the result or end)

fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)

break (happen or take place)

chance (be the case by chance)

backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)

coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)

bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)

bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)

happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)

come around; roll around (happen regularly)

come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)

break; develop; recrudesce (happen)

develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)

anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)

fall (occur at a specified time or place)

come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)

go; proceed (follow a certain course)

supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)

give (occur)

transpire (come about, happen, or occur)

intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)

result (come about or follow as a consequence)

arise; come up (result or issue)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

"However it may have come about," said Elinor, after a pause,—"they are certainly married.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremeditated as it was natural.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Once the Juno team proved secular variation did occur, they sought to explain how such a change might come about.

(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)

Sir, said the captain, if I risk another order, the whole ship'll come about our ears by the run.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

While naturalistic sounds and 'green' environments have frequently been linked with promoting relaxation and wellbeing, until now there has been no scientific consensus as to how these effects come about.

(Sound of Nature Helps Us Relax, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Perseid meteor shower peaks every year about this time as the Earth passes debris from the Swift-Tuttle comet, but this year the annual shower will come about a week before a total solar eclipse.

(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)

It was an idea that I had for a long time, said University of Massachusetts Astronomy Research Professor Mark Heyer, and only recently has some of the technology come about that somebody like me could access that.

(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)

I think it was meant to be so, and would have come about naturally, if I had waited, as you tried to make me, but I never could be patient, and so I got a heartache.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He had entered the fog to windward of the steamer, and while the steamer had blindly driven on into the fog in the chance of catching him, he had come about and out of his shelter and was now running down to re-enter to leeward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)