COME FORTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come forth mean? 

• COME FORTH (verb)
  The verb COME FORTH has 2 senses:

1. come out of

2. happen or occur as a result of something

  Familiarity information: COME FORTH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME FORTH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come out of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue

Context example:

The words seemed to come out by themselves

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

pop out (come out suddenly or forcefully)

radiate (issue or emerge in rays or waves)

leak (enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure)

escape (issue or leak, as from a small opening)

fall (come out; issue)

debouch (pass out or emerge; especially of rivers)

come out; fall out (come off)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Happen or occur as a result of something

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

come forth; emerge

Hypernyms (to "come forth" is one way to...):

arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise (come into existence; take on form or shape)

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

break (come forth or begin from a state of latency)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Far less than half-way to the hamlet, very little beyond the bottom of the hill, we must come forth into the moonlight.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“It was for that very reason that my father willed that I should come forth into the world at my twentieth year,” said Alleyne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A little longer, and I shall know all that man can know, and shall come forth wiser than the wisest of mankind.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Bowing with the air of one accustomed to public praise, he stole to the cavern and ordered Hagar to come forth with a commanding, "What ho, minion! I need thee!"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit, had I risked the experiment while under the empire of generous or pious aspirations, all must have been otherwise, and from these agonies of death and birth, I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The packed benches of students joined in, and every time Challenger's beard opened, before any sound could come forth, there was a yell of Question! from a hundred voices, and an answering counter cry of Order! and Shame! from as many more.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And I can see men-at-arms in yonder boats which ply betwixt the vessel and the shore. But methinks that we are very welcome here, for already they come forth to meet us.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The vanguard halted a long bow shot from the hill, and with waving spears and vaunting shouts challenged their enemies to come forth, while two cavaliers, pricking forward from the glittering ranks, walked their horses slowly between the two arrays with targets braced and lances in rest like the challengers in a tourney.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, my fair lord,” Aylward answered with a grin, “it is violence which is offered to a man. He comes from Hordle, and this is his mother who hath come forth to welcome him.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)