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COMER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who arrives (or has arrived)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("comer" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "comer"):
early bird (a person who arrives early before others do)
latecomer (someone who arrives late)
newcomer (a recent arrival)
Derivation:
come (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone with a promising future
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("comer" is a kind of...):
challenger; competition; competitor; contender; rival (the contestant you hope to defeat)
Context examples:
"We'll sleep here," he said, "unless you prefer this bunk. You're the first comer and you have first choice, you know."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Edward was allowed to retain the privilege of first comer, and Colonel Brandon therefore walked every night to his old quarters at the Park; from whence he usually returned in the morning, early enough to interrupt the lovers' first tete-a-tete before breakfast.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The new-comer did not understand.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
—so that I forgot myself and my mate’s duties, and took no part in helping the new-comers aboard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It has been the use at the 'Pied Merlin' this many a year back that the company should drink to the health of the last comer.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When he had dismissed the last one and thought himself alone, a late-comer entered, unexpected and unsummoned.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The new-comer was a stout, square-built man, plainly and almost carelessly dressed, with an uncouth manner and a rolling gait.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“That’s a ferry-boat of some sort,” the new-comer said, indicating a whistle off to the right.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“You must ever plague the new-comers. But it were shame if this went further. The lad hath shown a proper spirit.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
