come together

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To assemble; to congregate; to combine.
   • After the attack, we all came together and acted as one.
   • What is to be done then, brethren? when ye come together, according as euerie one of you hathe a pſalme, or hathe doctrine, or hathe a tongue, or hathe reuelation, or hathe interpretacion, let all things be done vnto edifying.1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, I. Corinthians XIIII:26...
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To harmonize socially; to come to an amicable agreement; to ally or band together.
   • I told both of them they had better come together on a compromise.
   • A. and his wife boarded and lodged in the house of B., the brother of A., and both A. and his wife assisted B. in carrying on his business. A. brought an action for the services, to which B. pleaded a set-off for board and lodging:—Held, that neither the services on the one hand, nor the board and...1841, “Assumpsit”, in Supplement to The Jurist; Containing a Digest of All the Reported Cases Decided in the Court of Common Law, Equity, Admiralty, and in the Ecclesiastical Courts; Published during...
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To begin proceeding correctly; for a complex plan with many components to work out eventually.
   • I thought the reorganization would be a disaster, but you made it come together.
   • I love it when a plan comes together.
4. (intransitive) To meet.
   • Apelles, take Campaſpe, why moue ye not? Campaſpe, take Apelles, wil it not be? If you be aſhamed one of the other, by my conſent you ſhall neuer come together. But diſſemble not Campaſpe, do you loue Apelles?1584, [John Lyly], Campaspe. Played before the Queenes Maiestie on Newyeares Day, at Night, by Her Maiesties Children, and the Children of Paules, London: Imprinted at London for Thomas Cadman...
5. (intransitive) To arrive at a destination with someone after having travelled there with each other.
   • We bumped into each other earlier, so we came together in a taxi.
6. (intransitive, slang) To achieve orgasm at the same time.
   • Her hands stroked him while he fondled her and both of their emotions began speeding out of control. She gasped, her face a changing wave of love and tenderness and when they came together she sobbed and held on to him as if they would never be together again.2014 August 27, Darryl Terry, chapter 23, in A Weekend with Lana, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN