coming
noun
- motion
- arising from an origin
- pursue (often with after), pursuing
- pertaining to inclusion in a purchase
adjective
- become, arrive at a certain state of being
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌmɪŋ/ / /ˈkʊmɪŋ/ / /ˈkʊmɪŋɡ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).
- Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
“We expect great things from you this coming year.”
“She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.”
- Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
“Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.”
- Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
“How coming to the poet every muse!”
“That he had been so affectionate a husband, was no ill argument to the coming dowager, that he might prove as kind to her.”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).
- The act of arriving; an arrival.
“The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday.”
“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, […]”
verb
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”).
- present participle and gerund of come