COMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comer mean? 

• COMER (noun)
  The noun COMER has 2 senses:

1. someone with a promising future

2. someone who arrives (or has arrived)

  Familiarity information: COMER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone with a promising future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("comer" is a kind of...):

challenger; competition; competitor; contender; rival (the contestant you hope to defeat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who arrives (or has arrived)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

arrival; arriver; comer

Hypernyms ("comer" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comer"):

early bird (a person who arrives early before others do)

latecomer (someone who arrives late)

newcomer (a recent arrival)

Derivation:

come (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)

 Context examples 

The others, however, drew closer, leaving the place of honor to the right of the gleeman to the free-handed new-comer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, Mr. Van Weyden, he said to me when he had been relieved from the wheel, we must make these new-comers welcome.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Any kind of work, no trade," he told the agent; and was interrupted by a new-comer, dressed rather foppishly, as some workingmen dress who have instincts for finer things.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The princess begged and prayed; but the king said, “I have sworn to give you to the first comer, and I will keep my word.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

With a loud long knock, the new-comer appealed to the door.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“God help the Dutch public!” muttered my uncle, as the fat little man bustled off with his news to some new-comer.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is unknown how much was consumed in our kitchen by odd comers and goers.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A new-comer, a most monstrous animal, was coming down the path.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They be all very well for comers and trippers, an' the like, but not for a nice young lady like you.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They come in spite of it, and when the husband mentions casually to the wife that there are new-comers in the cottage, she knows in some way that they are her pursuers.

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