"come round" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-come round.wav [Southern-England] Forms: comes round [present, singular, third-person], coming round [participle, present], came round [past], come round [participle, past]
Etymology: From come + round. Head templates: {{en-verb|<,,came,come>}} come round (third-person singular simple present comes round, present participle coming round, simple past came round, past participle come round)
  1. To change direction. Synonyms (change direction): put about, turn around, wheel Translations (to change direction): umdrehen (German), wenden (German), umkehren (German), zmieniać kierunek [imperfective] (Polish), zmienić kierunek [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-come_round-en-verb-m0d0rG27 Disambiguation of 'change direction': 96 3 0 0 0 Disambiguation of 'to change direction': 94 5 0 0 0
  2. To change one's opinion to a prevailing one. Synonyms (change opinion to a prevailing one): give way Translations (to change one's opinion): se raviser (French), einlenken (German), umschwenken (German), zu der Einsicht gelangen (German), zmieniać zdanie [imperfective] (Polish), zmienić zdanie [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-come_round-en-verb-UUxVvaDT Disambiguation of 'change opinion to a prevailing one': 12 81 4 1 1 Disambiguation of "to change one's opinion": 15 84 0 0 1
  3. To return to a former condition.
    To recover consciousness, to come to
    Synonyms (recover consciousness): come to, come to one's senses, wake up Related terms: come around Translations (to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses): odzyskiwać przytomność [imperfective] (Polish), odzyskać przytomność [perfective] (Polish), dochodzić do siebie [imperfective] (Polish), dojść do siebie [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-come_round-en-verb-en:recover_consciousness Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "round", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 4 53 28 5 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "round": 11 7 45 27 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 6 65 16 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 4 53 34 4 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 12 8 54 17 9 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 11 7 57 18 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 12 9 48 21 9 Disambiguation of 'recover consciousness': 5 1 91 2 2 Disambiguation of "to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses": 0 5 92 1 2
  4. To return to a former condition.
    To cease anger or hostility.
    Synonyms (cease hostility): calm down, cease fire, pull in one's horns Translations (to cease anger or hostility): zur Vernunft kommen (German), Vernunft annehmen (German), zur Besinnung kommen (German), przekonywać się do [imperfective] (Polish), przekonać się do [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-come_round-en-verb-62RN~S2j Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 7 33 44 8 Disambiguation of 'cease hostility': 3 1 3 92 1 Disambiguation of 'to cease anger or hostility': 0 0 1 98 0
  5. To visit someone's home or other regular place. Synonyms (visit someone's home): call on Translations (to visit someone): passer (French), vorbeikommen (German), vorbeischauen (German), odwiedzać [imperfective] (Polish), odwiedzić [perfective] (Polish), wpadać z wizytą [imperfective] (Polish), wpaść z wizytą [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-come_round-en-verb-if185sqR Disambiguation of "visit someone's home": 3 3 4 2 87 Disambiguation of 'to visit someone': 2 3 11 5 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (to return to a former condition): wiederkommen (German), zurückkommen (German), wieder da sein (German), wieder der / die Alte sein (German), dochodzić do siebie [imperfective] (Polish), dojść do siebie [perfective] (Polish)
Disambiguation of 'to return to a former condition': 0 0 50 50 0

Inflected forms

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          "text": "That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To return to a former condition.",
        "To recover consciousness, to come to"
      ],
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        [
          "recover",
          "recover"
        ],
        [
          "consciousness",
          "consciousness"
        ],
        [
          "come to",
          "come to"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:recover consciousness"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To return to a former condition.",
        "To cease anger or hostility."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cease",
          "cease"
        ],
        [
          "anger",
          "anger"
        ],
        [
          "hostility",
          "hostility"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              18,
              28
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Would you like to come round for dinner tonight?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              30,
              40
            ]
          ],
          "text": "What day does the garbage man come round?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              62,
              74
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To visit someone's home or other regular place."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "home",
          "home"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "change direction",
      "word": "put about"
    },
    {
      "sense": "change direction",
      "word": "turn around"
    },
    {
      "sense": "change direction",
      "word": "wheel"
    },
    {
      "sense": "change opinion to a prevailing one",
      "word": "give way"
    },
    {
      "sense": "recover consciousness",
      "word": "come to"
    },
    {
      "sense": "recover consciousness",
      "word": "come to one's senses"
    },
    {
      "sense": "recover consciousness",
      "word": "wake up"
    },
    {
      "sense": "cease hostility",
      "word": "calm down"
    },
    {
      "sense": "cease hostility",
      "word": "cease fire"
    },
    {
      "sense": "cease hostility",
      "word": "pull in one's horns"
    },
    {
      "sense": "visit someone's home",
      "word": "call on"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to change direction",
      "word": "umdrehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to change direction",
      "word": "wenden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to change direction",
      "word": "umkehren"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to change direction",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zmieniać kierunek"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to change direction",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zmienić kierunek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "to change one's opinion",
      "word": "se raviser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to change one's opinion",
      "word": "einlenken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to change one's opinion",
      "word": "umschwenken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to change one's opinion",
      "word": "zu der Einsicht gelangen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to change one's opinion",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "zmieniać zdanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to change one's opinion",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zmienić zdanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to return to a former condition",
      "word": "wiederkommen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to return to a former condition",
      "word": "zurückkommen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to return to a former condition",
      "word": "wieder da sein"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to return to a former condition",
      "word": "wieder der / die Alte sein"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to return to a former condition",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dochodzić do siebie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to return to a former condition",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "dojść do siebie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "odzyskiwać przytomność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "odzyskać przytomność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "dochodzić do siebie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "dojść do siebie"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
      "word": "zur Vernunft kommen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
      "word": "Vernunft annehmen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
      "word": "zur Besinnung kommen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "przekonywać się do"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to cease anger or hostility",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "przekonać się do"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "to visit someone",
      "word": "passer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to visit someone",
      "word": "vorbeikommen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "to visit someone",
      "word": "vorbeischauen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to visit someone",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "odwiedzać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to visit someone",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "odwiedzić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to visit someone",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "wpadać z wizytą"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "to visit someone",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "wpaść z wizytą"
    }
  ],
  "word": "come round"
}

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