Came Meaning
/ˈkeɪ̯m/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past of come
verbpast participle of come
Sentence Examples
I didn't know where it came from.
What if you gave a speech and nobody came?
We all cheered as the team came on to the field.
CEFR Practice Quiz
When the teacher called his name, the student ____ to the front of the class.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ to the party with her brother and stayed until very late.
Word Origin & History
See come.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"With that army the British army, in the course of its operations, must have came in contact; and, if that were likely, (may rather if it was impossible to avoid it.) I will ask, whether, under all the circumstances of Europe[…]"
— 1812, The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, volume 16, T.C. Hansard, page 335:
"Thailand's expansion of access to secondary and tertiary education is unlikely to have came at the expense of quality. International achievement test^([sic]) show Thai students consistently outperforming not just Indonesia, whose per capita national income is less than half of Thailand's[…]"
— 2006, Kaspar Richter, Thailand's Growth Path: From Recovery to Prosperity, The World Bank, page 50:
"I don't know why her ass couldn't have just waited until I had got ready so we could have came together. It's bad enough I even have to be in this mothafucka."
— 2011 April 1, Angie Daniels, Careful of the Company You Keep, Kensington Publishing Corp, page 53:
"Came Christmas by which, at the outset, everybody knew it would be over, and it was not over. Came June, 1915, concerning which, at the outset, he had joined with Mr. Fortune, Twyning and Harold in laughter at his own grotesque idea of the war lasting to the dramatic effect of a culminating battle on the centenary of Waterloo, and the war had lasted, and was still lasting."
— 1921, Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson, If Winter Comes, page 256:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
When the teacher called his name, the student ____ to the front of the class.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ to the party with her brother and stayed until very late.