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Coming

//ˈkʌmɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next. not-comparable

    "We expect great things from you this coming year."

  2. 2
    Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement. not-comparable

    "Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing."

  3. 3
    Ready to come; complaisant; fond. not-comparable, obsolete

    "How coming to the poet every muse!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of the relatively near future wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act of arriving; an arrival.

    "The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday."

  2. 2
    arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) wordnet
  3. 3
    the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse wordnet
  4. 4
    the act of drawing spatially closer to something wordnet
  5. 5
    the temporal property of becoming nearer in time wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of come form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English cominge, comynge, comande, from Old English cumende, from Proto-Germanic *kwemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to come + -ing (present participle ending). Cognate with Dutch komend (“coming”), German kommend (“coming”), Swedish kommande (“coming”), Icelandic komandi (“coming”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).

Etymology 3

From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).

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