come back

See also: comeback, Comeback, come-back, and Come-back

English

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To return to a place.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be Real.

2. (intransitive) To return to one's possession, especially of memories.

   Suddenly it all came back to him, the tea, the petite madeleines, his mother.

3. (intransitive) To return to a former state, usually a desirable one; to become fashionable once more.

   Many people counted him out, but he came back better than ever.

   Paisley is coming back this year.

4. (intransitive) To retort.

   He came back with one of his snide remarks.

Translations

(intransitive) To return to a place

• Arabic: عَادَ (ʕāda), رَجَعَ (ar) (rajaʕa)
• Armenian: վերադառնալ (hy) (veradaṙnal)
• Cebuano: balik
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 回來／回来 (zh) (huílái), 回来 (zh) (huílai), 返回 (zh) (fǎnhuí)

• Czech: vrátit se (cs)
• Dutch: terugkomen (nl)
• Esperanto: reveni
• Estonian: naasma
• Faroese: koma aftur
• Finnish: palata (fi)
• French: revenir (fr)
• Friulian: tornâ
• Georgian: დაბრუნება (dabruneba), ბრუნდება (brundeba)
• German: zurückkommen (de), zurückkehren (de)
• Greek: ξανάρχομαι (el) (xanárchomai)
• Hindi: वापस आना (vāpas ānā)
• Italian: tornare (it)
• Japanese: 戻る (ja) (もどる, modoru), 帰る (ja) (かえる, kaeru)
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• Khmer: ត្រឡប់មកវិញ (trɑlɑp mɔɔk vɨɲ), ត្រឡប់ (trɑlɑp)
• Korean: 돌아오다 (ko) (doraoda)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Lao: ກັບມາ (kap mā), ເມືອ (mư̄a)
• Latin: reveniō, redeō (la)
• Norman: r'vénîn
• Norwegian: returnere, komme tilbake
• Persian: برگشتن (fa) (bargaštan)
• Polish: wracać (pl), wrócić (pl)
• Portuguese: voltar (pt)
• Quechua: kutiy, t'ikray (qu)
• Romanian: întoarce (ro)
• Russian: (imperfective) возвраща́ться (ru) (vozvraščátʹsja), (perfective) возврати́ться (ru) (vozvratítʹsja), (perfective) верну́ться (ru) (vernútʹsja)
• Slovak: prísť späť, vrátiť sa, navrátiť sa
• Spanish: volver (es), regresar (es)
• Swedish: komma tillbaka
• Thai: กลับมา (glàp maa)
• Urdu: واپس آنا (ur) (vāpas ānā)
• Vietnamese: trở lại (vi), trở về (vi)

See also

• go back