Coming
adj, noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The act of arriving; an arrival.
"The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday."
- 2 arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) wordnet
- 3 the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse wordnet
- 4 the act of drawing spatially closer to something wordnet
- 5 the temporal property of becoming nearer in time wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of come form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next. not-comparable
"We expect great things from you this coming year."
- 2 Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement. not-comparable
"Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing."
- 3 Ready to come; complaisant; fond. not-comparable, obsolete
"How coming to the poet every muse!"
- 1 of the relatively near future wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"We're getting out of here. The cops are coming."
Etymology
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”).
From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).
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