"come to be" meaning in All languages combined

See come to be on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: comes to be [present, singular, third-person], coming to be [participle, present], came to be [past], come to be [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|come<,,came,come> to be}} come to be (third-person singular simple present comes to be, present participle coming to be, simple past came to be, past participle come to be)
  1. To come about; to come into being
    Sense id: en-come_to_be-en-verb-VKYJsdSQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for come to be meaning in All languages combined (0.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes to be",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming to be",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came to be",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come to be",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "come<,,came,come> to be"
      },
      "expansion": "come to be (third-person singular simple present comes to be, present participle coming to be, simple past came to be, past participle come to be)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To come about; to come into being"
      ],
      "id": "en-come_to_be-en-verb-VKYJsdSQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "come about",
          "come about"
        ],
        [
          "come into being",
          "come into being"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "come to be"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes to be",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming to be",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came to be",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come to be",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "come<,,came,come> to be"
      },
      "expansion": "come to be (third-person singular simple present comes to be, present participle coming to be, simple past came to be, past participle come to be)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To come about; to come into being"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "come about",
          "come about"
        ],
        [
          "come into being",
          "come into being"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "come to be"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.