COME FORWARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come forward mean? 

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

1. make oneself visible; take action

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME FORWARD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make oneself visible; take action

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come forward; come out; come to the fore; step forward; step to the fore; step up

Context example:

Young people should step to the fore and help their peers

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

act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

I saw him looking anxiously about him, and noted that Kelly, who had come forward at the last moment, was missing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In that case, of course, I’d come forward.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Gray and Hunter were the first to come forward.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mrs. Ferrars, with the utmost liberality, will come forward, and settle on him a thousand a year, if the match takes place.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"Ah! well, come forward; be seated here."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They burst on him, I do not know how, but by some letter or message—and it was the discovery of what she was doing, of this very project of hers, which determined him to come forward at once, own it all to his uncle, throw himself on his kindness, and, in short, put an end to the miserable state of concealment that had been carrying on so long.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

That the general should come forward to solicit the alliance, or that he should even very heartily approve it, they were not refined enough to make any parading stipulation; but the decent appearance of consent must be yielded, and that once obtained—and their own hearts made them trust that it could not be very long denied—their willing approbation was instantly to follow.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Let the child who broke her slate come forward!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Several witnesses were called who had known her for many years, and they spoke well of her; but fear and hatred of the crime of which they supposed her guilty rendered them timorous and unwilling to come forward.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)