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come to mind

come to mind verb: to appear in one's thoughts.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To appear in one's thoughts.
    • Sarcastic comments came to mind, but I said nothing.2001, Bill MacDonald, Patagonian odyssey: a travel memoir, page 157

come to mind meaning in Marathi, Bengali, Kannada and Punjabi

come to mind in Marathi

to come to mind, occur , suggest itself
सुचणे suċṇe

come to mind in Bengali

কারো চিন্তায় আসা, উদিত হওয়া

come to mind in Kannada

ಮನಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಬರು, ಹೊಳೆ, ಎರ್ದೆವರ್

come to mind in Punjabi

to come to mind; to occur to someone; to suggest itself
ਔੜਨਾ auṛanā

Forms of come to mind

third-person singular presentcomes to mind
present participlecoming to mind
pastcame to mind
past participlecome to mind

Questions about come to mind

What does come to mind mean?
Come to mind means to appear in one's thoughts.
What is come to mind in Marathi?
Come to mind in Marathi is सुचणे (suċṇe). See Come to mind meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is come to mind?
Come to mind is a verb.
What is the past tense of come to mind?
The past tense of come to mind is came to mind.

Words near come to mind in the dictionary

  1. come to hand
  2. come to Jesus
  3. come to life
  4. come to light
  5. come to mention it
  6. come to mind
  7. come to naught
  8. come to nothing
  9. come to nought
  10. come to one's hand
  11. come to one's senses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: come to mind (page history and authors); सुचणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); come to mind (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); come to mind (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਔੜਨਾ (Punjabi) (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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