Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Approaching; forthcoming; next.
- adjective Showing promise of fame or success.
- noun Arrival; advent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of one who or that which comes, in any sense of the verb. Specifically
- noun Arrival.
- noun The act of sprouting.
- noun plural In malting, barley-shoots after the barley has been kiln-dried.
- Forward; ready to come; yielding; pliable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Approach; advent; manifestation.
- noun Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ, called usually the
second coming . - noun Income or revenue.
- adjective Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
- adjective obsolete Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
come . - noun The act of
arriving ; anarrival - adjective
Next . - adjective
Deserved . - adjective Newly in
fashion ; advancing into maturity or achievement.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- noun the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
- noun arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
- noun the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
- adjective of the relatively near future
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus from the general tenor of prophecy it appears that infidelity will have overspread the world _when the Son of man shall come_ to reign upon it: And as this agrees to no other coming of his foretold by the prophets, there can be no reasonable doubt what _coming_ is intended in the text.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee
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Great Rome will soon be sacked with Romans, for her boy is coming home; the child of her instinct, the son of her ignorance, the son of her RELIGION, is _coming home_.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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He saith, that because the coming of _Christ_ should be long deferred, they should scoff, saying, _where is the promise of his coming_?
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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Christ’s coming, or εἰσοδου, — _coming in_, as the Septuagint read, meaning his coming, or entering into his temple, mentioned in the first verse; by which temple Jerome upon the place rightly understandeth the church, or spiritual temple.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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My mistake was in coming from the unwashed of the East End. There were not many who came from that quarter.
CORONATION DAY 2010
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Enjoyment was not a word coming out of the England camp, even though they won their first Six Nations title in eight years.
Six Nations 2011: The great orator Paul O'Connell leads Ireland to win 2011
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That the recognition he received was slow in coming, is in part explained by the fact that he was already in middle life before he published anything likely to arrest the attention of the public in these islands, Catholic or non-Catholic, and that he was well past that period when his most important work was done.
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And Robert Putnam, it's interesting - again coming from a theocracy like Saudi Arabia, but nevertheless - well, not quite a theocracy, but the king is the protector of the two holy places.
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Regardless of the spin coming from the city's troubled daily newspaper, Paulson is not putting $69 million into the stadiums deal -- at least not the way today's story describes it.
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“Yes,” he said, the word coming out in a dry whisper.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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