COME ROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come round mean? 

• COME ROUND (verb)
  The verb COME ROUND has 1 sense:

1. change one's position or opinion

  Familiarity information: COME ROUND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME ROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change one's position or opinion

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

come around; come round

Context example:

He came around to our point of view

Hypernyms (to "come round" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

"Come round" entails doing...:

reconsider (consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

All would come round to me in due time.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The yellow cog had been engaged, with Goodwin Hawtayne in command, and a month after the wedding Alleyne rode down to Bucklershard to see if she had come round yet from Southampton.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She whispered to me to come round to the big front window, and I found it open before me, so as to let me into the dining-room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was well aware that nothing but business of importance would have brought him to me at such an hour, so I waited patiently until he should come round to it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I'll slip off and take a journey somewhere, and when Grandpa misses me he'll come round fast enough.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You come round here to the left, out of this gate, tracing his finger along the inkstand, and exactly where I hold this pen, there stands the house—facing, you understand, towards the church.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It's a 'igh 'un with a stone front with a bow on it, an' 'igh steps up to the door. I know them steps, 'avin' 'ad to carry the boxes up with three loafers what come round to earn a copper. The old gent give them shillin's, an' they seein' they got so much, they wanted more; but 'e took one of them by the shoulder and was like to throw 'im down the steps, till the lot of them went away cussin'.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The squire and I were both peering over his shoulder as he opened it, for Dr. Livesey had kindly motioned me to come round from the side-table, where I had been eating, to enjoy the sport of the search.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Now when the full year was come round, the third brother left the forest in which he had lain hid for fear of his father’s anger, and set out in search of his betrothed bride.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)