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came into

came into is the simple past of come into.

Meaning of come into

Verb

come into (third-person singular simple present comes into, present participle coming into, simple past came into, past participle come into)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See come and into.
    • Please come into the living room.
  2. (transitive) To obtain (usually money or property), especially through inheritance.
    • After his father died, he came into a large fortune.
  3. (transitive) To be a factor in.
    • Money doesn't come into it.
  4. (transitive) To enter the initial phase of; to commence.
    • I came into the role with no preconceptions.

Questions about came into

What is came into the simple past of?
Came into is the simple past of come into.

Words near came into in the dictionary

  1. came in for
  2. came in from the cold
  3. came in handy
  4. came in hot
  5. came in useful
  6. came into
  7. came into being
  8. came into force
  9. came into one's own
  10. came into play
  11. came into the world

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Adapted from Wiktionary: came into (page history and authors); come into (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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