Dictionary

come round en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From come + round.

Meanings

1. To change direction.
2. To change one's opinion to a prevailing one.
   • He's a reasonable man. I knew he'd come round eventually.
   • I'll explain it again, and maybe he'll come round to my way of thinking.
3. To return to a former condition. ▸ To recover consciousness, to come to
   • Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung. 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
   • After the blow to my head, I took a while to come round.
4. To return to a former condition. ▸ To cease anger or hostility.
5. To visit someone's home or other regular place.
   • 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. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
   • Would you like to come round for dinner tonight?
   • What day does the garbage man come round?

Forms

Relateds

come around

Synonyms

come to one's senses (recover consciousness) · pull in one's horns (cease hostility) · cease fire (cease hostility) · wake up (recover consciousness) · call on (visit someone's home) · calm down (cease hostility) · give way (change opinion to a prevailing one) · come to (recover consciousness) · wheel (change direction) · put about (change direction) · turn around (change direction)

Translations (33)

pl zmieniać zdanie (to change one's opinion) · de umdrehen (to change direction) · pl wpaść z wizytą (to visit someone) · pl dochodzić do siebie (to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses) · de zurückkommen (to return to a former condition) · de wieder da sein (to return to a former condition) · de zu der Einsicht gelangen (to change one's opinion) · de wieder der / die Alte sein (to return to a former condition) · de umkehren (to change direction) · de zur Besinnung kommen (to cease anger or hostility) · pl odwiedzać (to visit someone) · de umschwenken (to change one's opinion) · pl przekonywać się do (to cease anger or hostility) · pl zmieniać kierunek (to change direction) · de wenden (to change direction) · fr passer (to visit someone) · de Vernunft annehmen (to cease anger or hostility) · pl zmienić kierunek (to change direction) · de zur Vernunft kommen (to cease anger or hostility) · pl odwiedzić (to visit someone) · de vorbeikommen (to visit someone) · pl przekonać się do (to cease anger or hostility) · pl dojść do siebie (to return to a former condition) · pl dochodzić do siebie (to return to a former condition) · de einlenken (to change one's opinion) · pl dojść do siebie (to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses) · de vorbeischauen (to visit someone) · pl odzyskać przytomność (to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses) · pl wpadać z wizytą (to visit someone) · pl zmienić zdanie (to change one's opinion) · de wiederkommen (to return to a former condition) · fr se raviser (to change one's opinion) · pl odzyskiwać przytomność (to recover consciousness — see also come to, come to one's senses)