Definition of Come home

1. Verb. Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions. "She was penetrated with sorrow"

Exact synonyms: Click, Dawn, Fall Into Place, Get Across, Get Through, Penetrate, Sink In
Causes: Understand

Lexicographical Neighbors of Come Home

come close
come down
come down on
come down the pike
come down to
come down to us
come down with
come for
come forth
come forward
come from
come from behind
come full circle
come hell or high water
come hither
come home (current term)
come home to roost
come in
come in for
come in from the cold
come in handy
come into
come into being
come into effect
come into force
come into its own
come near
come of
come of age

Literary usage of Come home

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Selections from Wordsworth by Curtis Hidden Page (1904)
"SONGS IN ABSENCE COMF. home, come home! and where is Whose ship ii driving ... come home, come home ! ami wh. home hath he Whose ship is driving o'er the ..."

2. Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence (1922)
"But you 've no need to come home fi me. I can go alone." There was silence. After all, then, she would not 1« much. For all their talk down at his home ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... that you would have me come home at Whitsuntide, but it is but in vaine to ... all things here, & to come home, so that you send me an horse withal. ..."

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