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Definition of Come to the fore
1. Verb. Make oneself visible; take action. "Young people should step to the fore and help their peers"
Generic synonyms: Act, Move
Definition of Come to the fore
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To become obvious or visible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Come To The Fore
Literary usage of Come to the fore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jefferson Borden Mutiny: Trial of George Miller, John Glew and William by Circuit Court (1st Circuit, George Miller, United States (1876)
"... looking aft, and they carry me forward to the fore hatch, and when he come to
the fore hatch, he shove me down. Q. Who did that? A. Miller. Q. Who? ..."
2. The Horseless Age (1896)
"Although the question of rapid mechanical traction has come to the fore after a
lapse of about half a century, it cannot be said that the ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"In the book which we have to consider, this failing does not come to the fore as
much as in ... were already then beginning to come to the fore. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1908)
"In the book which we have to consider, this failing does not come to the fore as
much as in ... were already then beginning to come to the fore. ..."
5. Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War by James Brown Scott (1916)
"... that the two governments had been in perfect harmony as to the fundamental
principles of the Albanian question which had come to the fore during the ..."
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