COME HOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come home mean? 

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

1. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME HOME (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

click; come home; dawn; fall into place; get across; get through; penetrate; sink in

Context example:

she was penetrated with sorrow

Cause:

understand (know and comprehend the nature or meaning of)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Everything he had forgotten, and which had vanished from his mind, had suddenly come home again to his heart.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Has he come home, sir?” I inquired.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"No, you won't. You hate hard work, and you'll marry some rich man, and come home to sit in the lap of luxury all your days," said Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They were agreed that Martin had come home drunk.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"What can possess him to come home in that style?" said Miss Ingram.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No, she said, he had come home in the afternoon but had gone up to the hall to dine and pass the evening with the squire.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He almost wished she had been prevailed on to come home the day before; but the truth was, that Mrs Harville left nothing for anybody to do.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And with a relenting smile, he added, “I come home to be happy and indulgent.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If you come home with me, all will be well.

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

Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)