COME TO LIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come to light mean? 

• COME TO LIGHT (verb)
  The verb COME TO LIGHT has 1 sense:

1. be revealed or disclosed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME TO LIGHT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be revealed or disclosed

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

come to hand; come to light

Context example:

The truth finally came to light

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

appear (come into sight or view)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

There are a good many other points of detail which will, no doubt, come to light in good time.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cases which come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and vulgar enough.

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

I told the gentleman at first, when he told me upstairs it was come to light, that I would answer for your being umble, and making amends.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She asked no more questions therefore, merely employed her own fancy, and that soon pointed out to her the probability of its being some money concern—something just come to light, of a disagreeable nature in the circumstances of the family,—something which the late event at Richmond had brought forward.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Since Smith’s discovery many more clay tablets of the Babylonian flood story have come to light and academics are still analysing the meaning of stories in the ancient language that has not been spoken for 2000 years.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

It is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even more terrible than the truth.

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