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come to pass

come to pass verb: to happen; to occur.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To happen; to occur.
    • And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:8
    • I need the feel of your tender touch / Your smiling face that warms my heart so much / Sadness in my life will never come to pass / 'Cause within my heart I know it's got to last1974, Gloria Scott, “Just as Long as We're Together”
    Synonyms:
    transpire

come to pass meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Gujarati

come to pass in Hindi

to come to pass, befall, come upon
आना ānā

come to pass in Urdu

to come to pass, to befall
گذرنا guzarnā

come to pass in Malayalam

happen, come about, occur
സംഭവിക്കുക, വന്നുകൂടുക, ഉണ്ടായിത്തീരുക, ആകുക, ഇടയാകുക, ഇടവരുക

come to pass in Gujarati

to come to pass, happen, befall
બનવું banvũ
More languagesFewer languages
come to pass in Sanskrit
या yā

Synonyms of come to pass

Forms of come to pass

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

Questions about come to pass

What does come to pass mean?
Come to pass means to happen; to occur.
What is come to pass in Hindi?
Come to pass in Hindi is आना (ānā). See Come to pass meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is come to pass?
Come to pass is a verb.
What is the past tense of come to pass?
The past tense of come to pass is came to pass.

Words near come to pass in the dictionary

  1. come to one's hand
  2. come to one's senses
  3. come to oneself
  4. come to order
  5. come to papa
  6. come to pass
  7. come to power
  8. come to rest
  9. come to someone's aid
  10. come to someone's rescue
  11. come to terms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: come to pass (page history and authors); आना (Hindi) (page history and authors); گذرنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); come to pass (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); બનવું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); या (Sanskrit) (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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