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come true

come true verb: to become real: to become true or existent.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To become real: to become true or existent.
    • If you wish really hard, it just might come true.
    • Many of their predictions came true, but of course, many did not.
  2. To maintain identity of salient characteristics through propagation processes.
    Synonyms:
    breed true, race

come true meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

come true in Bengali

come true
ফলা phola

come true in Malayalam

to come true; to be fulfilled
ഒക്കുക okkuka

Examples of come true in a sentence

  • Hey ... you deserve all that a man can do / To make your dreams and happiness come true / When we're out, you make me feel so nice / It's like living in a world of paradise1976, Eddie Kendricks, “To You From Me”, in Goin' Up in Smoke:
  • So happy Christmas / I love you baby / I can see a better time / When all our dreams come true1987, Jem Finer, Shane MacGowan, “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues:

Synonyms of come true

Forms of come true

third-person singular presentcomes true
present participlecoming true
pastcame true
past participlecome true

Questions about come true

What does come true mean?
Come true means to become real: to become true or existent.
What is come true in Bengali?
Come true in Bengali is ফলা (phola). See Come true meaning in Bengali.
How do you use come true in a sentence?
Hey ... you deserve all that a man can do / To make your dreams and happiness come true / When we're out, you make me feel so nice / It's like living in a world of paradise
What part of speech is come true?
Come true is a verb.
What is the past tense of come true?
The past tense of come true is came true.

Words near come true in the dictionary

  1. come to the scratch
  2. come to think of it
  3. come to time
  4. come together
  5. come too
  6. come true
  7. come under
  8. come undone
  9. come unhinged
  10. come unstuck
  11. come up

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: come true (page history and authors); ফলা (Bengali) (page history and authors); ഒക്കുക (Malayalam) (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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