becomeとは

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /bɪˈkʌm/, /bəˈkʌm/

  (Northern England) IPA^(key): /bɪˈkʊm/, /bəˈkʊm/

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /bəˈkʌm/, /biˈkʌm/
• 韻: -ʌm
• ハイフネーション: be‧come

動詞

become (third-person singular simple present becomes, present participle becoming, simple past became or (一般的ではない用法) becomed, past participle become or (まれに, dialectal) becomen)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place). [9^th-18^thc.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter ii, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:

     & thenne the noble knyghte sire Launcelot departed with ryghte heuy chere sodenly / that none erthely creature wyste of hym / nor where he was become / but sir Bors

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     But, madam, where is Warwick then become?

2. (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise. [from 12^thc.]

   What became of him after he was let go?

   It hath becomen so that many a man had to sterve.

3. (copulative) begin to be; turn into. [from 12^thc.]

   Synonyms: get, turn, go

   She became a doctor when she was 25.

   The weather will become cold after the sun goes down.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.

   • 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:

     Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.

   • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 206-7:

     Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

4. (transitive) To be proper for; to beseem. [from 13^thc.]
   • 1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, scene ii:

     Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant,

     And bring thee forth brave brood.

   • 1892, Ambrose Bierce, “The Applicant,” in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers かつ Civilians), New York: Gordian Press, 1966,^[1]

     He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity […]

   • 1930, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, 2010, p.7:

     His ordination […] enabled him to be independent of his parents, and to afford a manner of living which became his rank rather than his calling.

5. (transitive) Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone). [from 14^thc.]

   That dress really becomes you.

同意語

• (to be suitable for): befit, suit

参照

• become in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• become in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language