come together
/ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.29 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To harmonize socially; to come to an amicable agreement; to ally or band together.
Intransitive verb
verb
To begin proceeding correctly; for a complex plan with many components to work out eventually.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "After the attack, we all came together and acted as one."
- "What is to be done then, brethren? when ye come together, according as euerie one of you hathe a pſalme, or hathe doctrine, or hathe a tongue, or hathe reuelation, or hathe interpretacion, let all things be done vnto edifying."
- "At last, the news was received that the English parliament was about to render all their strifes and all their hopes nugatory by the general abrogation of every colonial charter. An assembly was summoned instantly; and, when it came together, the proprietary [William Penn], eager to return to England to defend the common rights of himself and his province, urged the perfecting of their frame of government."
- "It is loosely adapted by John Hodge from Irvine Welsh's novel Porno which imagined them coming together again 10 years on; this of course is 20."
- "I told both of them they had better come together on a compromise."
- "A. and his wife boarded and lodged in the house of B., the brother of A., and both A. and his wife assisted B. in carrying on his business. A. brought an action for the services, to which B. pleaded a set-off for board and lodging:—Held, that neither the services on the one hand, nor the board and lodging on the other, could be charged for, unless the jury were satisfied that the parties came together on the terms that they were to pay and to be paid; but that, if that were not so, no ex post facto charge could be made on either side. Davies v. Davies, 9 Car. & P. 87,—Williams J."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/
- British English: /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðə(ɹ)/