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to start to happen or work: The heating comes on at six in the morning. If you have an illness coming on, it is starting gradually: I think I've got a cold coming on. UK informal. If someone comes on, their period (= the process of blood coming from the womb that happens every month) starts. Fewer examples.
Definition of come on phrasal verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A come-on is a gesture or remark which someone makes in order to encourage another person to make sexual advances to them.
to start to happen or work: The heating comes on at six in the morning. I think I have a cold coming on. (MAKE PROGRESS) to make progress: How's your new novel coming on? Come on! informal. B1. used to encourage someone to do something, to hurry, to try harder, etc: Come on! We're going to be late. (DISAGREEMENT)
come on. Meaning. to request to hurry (something) to ask to go faster. to plead to do something sooner. to bring something forward. could be used with a sexual connotation. Example Sentences. The waiter asked us to come on and get the table before the people who had reserved it would arrive. Big tips do work!
come on esp. spoken tell the truth | Oh, come on – you have no idea who stole your credit cards. This is much closer to the meaning noted above that Ammer omits—but unfortunately, Cambridge doesn't provide an origin date for this sense of the expression.
ˈcome-on noun [ countable usually singular] informal something that someone does deliberately to make someone else sexually interested in them Rick’s the kind of guy who thinks every smile is a come-on. give somebody the come-on (=do something to show you are sexually interested in someone) → come on to somebody/something Examples from the Corpu...
Synonyms for COME ON: arrive, be, emerge, live, exist, set in, breathe, shape (up); Antonyms of COME ON: stop, end, cease, finish, conclude, terminate, quit, disappear
1. a. To advance toward the speaker or toward a specified place; approach: Come to me. b. To advance in a specified manner: The children came reluctantly when I insisted. 2. a. To make progress; advance: a former drug addict who has come a long way. b. To fare: How are things coming today? They're coming fine. 3. a.
3 days ago · come on (third-person singular simple present comes on, present participle coming on, simple past came on, past participle come on) ( transitive) To encounter, discover; to come upon . Synonym: come across. Turning the corner, I came on Julia sitting by the riverbank.
