coming
approach; arrival; advent: His coming here was a mistake.
following or impending; next; approaching: the coming year.
promising future fame or success: a coming actor.
Origin of coming
1Words Nearby coming
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use coming in a sentence
Such tools can detect a coming seizure in someone with epilepsy, for instance, and prevent it.
New technology can get inside your head. Are you ready? | Laura Sanders | February 11, 2021 | Science News For StudentsIt was his way of accepting the inevitable coming of the car traffic he loathed, while ensuring the carriage roads would remain auto-free.
The Ultimate Acadia National Park Travel Guide | Virginia M. Wright | February 8, 2021 | Outside OnlineKeller sensed the air moving when the front door opened, and the floor vibrating when it was trod upon, and so learned to anticipate the comings and goings of the people that she knew.
Five Scientists on the Heroes Who Changed Their Lives - Issue 93: Forerunners | Alan Lightman, Hope Jahren, Robert Sapolsky, | December 2, 2020 | NautilusThat their comings and goings would be livestreamed to police headquarters from hundreds of points about the city… and their faces could be scanned and identified.
Podcast: Facial recognition is quietly being used to control access to housing and social services | Tate Ryan-Mosley | December 2, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe prediction, if it proves true, could signal a way out of the pandemic, but it also foreshadows a coming period of global vaccine haves and have-nots.
US official says every American who wants a covid-19 vaccine will have one by June | David Rotman | December 1, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
I liked it because it was like my life coming back together.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThey were looping back around and coming down Tiebout Avenue when they spotted two figures.
In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.
Boehner was unanimously selected by the conference as its official nominee for speaker in the coming Congress.
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
Davy and The Goblin | Charles E. Carryl"There's just one thing I'd like to ask, if you don't mind," said Cynthia, coming suddenly out of a brown study.
The Boarded-Up House | Augusta Huiell SeamanBabylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini"I don't know whether I am going to like this or not--this coming to live in town," thought the little pig.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard BarnumThe Goliath wouldn't answer; the Dublin said the force was coming off, and we could not get into touch with the soldiers at all.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for coming
/ (ˈkʌmɪŋ) /
(prenominal) (of time, events, etc) approaching or next: this coming Thursday
promising (esp in the phrase up and coming)
of future importance: this is the coming thing
coming up! informal an expression used to announce that a meal is about to be served
have it coming to one informal to deserve what one is about to suffer
not know whether one is coming or going to be totally confused
arrival or approach
(often capital) Christianity the return of Christ in glory: See also Second Coming
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with coming
In addition to the idioms beginning with coming
- coming and going, have someone
- coming or going, not know if one is
- coming out of one's ears
- comings and goings
also see:
- get what's coming to one
- have another guess coming
- have it coming
- where one is coming from
Also see undercome.
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Browse