COME UP TO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does come up to mean? 

• COME UP TO (verb)
  The verb COME UP TO has 1 sense:

1. speak to someone

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COME UP TO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speak to someone

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accost; address; come up to

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

come; come up (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "come up to"):

greet; recognise; recognize (express greetings upon meeting someone)

approach (make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I don’t think any of our heads would have come up to his shoulder, and I am sure that he could not have measured less than six and a half feet.

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

Many rumours had come up to us from the west as to Crab Wilson’s fine science and the quickness of his hitting, but the truth surpassed what had been expected of him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But before me: if I, indeed, in any respect come up to your difficult standard?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

On Saturday I come up to town, and I do not intend to return.

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

I was myself looking out of the study window, having a smoke after dinner, and saw one of them come up to the house.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The horses of the army, and those of the royal stables, having been daily led before me, were no longer shy, but would come up to my very feet without starting.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Wherefore Mr. Micawber (who was a thoroughly good-natured man, and as active a creature about everything but his own affairs as ever existed, and never so happy as when he was busy about something that could never be of any profit to him) set to work at the petition, invented it, engrossed it on an immense sheet of paper, spread it out on a table, and appointed a time for all the club, and all within the walls if they chose, to come up to his room and sign it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her prolonged absence having caused some comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage.

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

The man and the woman are nearly gone, and they moan and groan and sob, but they go on. I, too, go on. I have but one thought. It is to come up to the stranger-man. Then it is that I shall rest, and not until then shall I rest, and it seems that I must lie down and sleep for a thousand years, I am so tired.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Then the miser began to beg and promise, and offered money for his liberty; but he did not come up to the musician’s price for some time, and he danced him along brisker and brisker, and the miser bid higher and higher, till at last he offered a round hundred of florins that he had in his purse, and had just gained by cheating some poor fellow.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)