COME UP TO

I. (verb)

Meaning:

Speak to someone

Synonyms:

accost; address; come up to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

The county police are at their wits’ end, and I have come up to you as a last resource.

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

Briggs, Wood, Mason, I invite you all to come up to the house and visit Mrs. Poole's patient, and my wife!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It would be a very great help to me if you would come up to London with us.

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

"No, you don't," interposed Tom quickly. "Myrtle'll be hurt if you don't come up to the apartment. Won't you, Myrtle?"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)