coming

coming

See also: Coming

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌmɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ

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”).

Verb

coming

1. present participle of come

Derived terms

• a long time coming
• have it coming
• see coming

Etymology 2

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

Noun

coming (plural comings)

1. The act of arriving; an arrival.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:

     But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]

Derived terms

• aftercoming
• forecoming
• forthcoming
• gaincoming
• second coming

Translations

act of arriving; an arrival

Arabic: إتْيَان‎ (ar) m (ʾityān), أَتْي‎ m (ʾaty), مَجِيء‎ m (majīʾ) Armenian: ժամանում (hy) (žamanum), գալուստ (hy) (galust) Bashkir: килеү (kilew) Bulgarian: идване (bg) n (idvane), пристигане n (pristigane) Chinese: Mandarin: 來臨／来临 (zh) (láilín) Czech: příchod (cs) m Dutch: komst (nl) f Esperanto: veni (eo) Finnish: tuleminen (fi) French: venue (fr) f, arrivée (fr) f German: Aufkommen (de) n, Kommen n Gothic: 𐌵𐌿𐌼𐍃 m (qums) Greek: ερχομός m (erkhomós) Hunsrik: Komme n Icelandic: koma (is) f Italian: arrivo (it) Japanese: 来臨 (ja) (らいりん, rairin) Kyrgyz: келме (kelme) Maltese: miġja f Persian: رسیدن‎ (fa) (residan), درآمدن‎ (fa) (darâmadan) Portuguese: vinda (pt) f Russian: наступле́ние (ru) n (nastuplénije), прихо́д (ru) m (prixód) Scottish Gaelic: tighinn f Spanish: venida (es) Turkish: gelme (tr) Welsh: dyfodiad m

Adjective

coming (not comparable)

1. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.

   See you the/this Sunday coming! -Well, maybe I can't the/this coming Sunday but on Sunday week.

   She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.

   • 1807, Byron, George Gordon, To the Earl of Clare:

     Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless,

2. Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.

   Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.

3. (obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
   • 1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:

     How coming to the poet every muse!

   • 1697, Dryden, John, “Dedication of the Æneis”, in The Works of Virgil:

     That he had been so affectionate a husband, was no ill argument to the coming dowager, that he might prove as kind to her.

Synonyms

• (of the future): unborn; see also Thesaurus:future

Derived terms

• coming on
• this coming
• up-and-coming

Translations

approaching; of the near future

Latin: venturus (la) Occitan: avenidor (oc)

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