coming

[ComĀ·ing]

Of the relatively near future

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Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.

Noun
arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous); "the advent of the computer"

Noun
the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

Noun
the act of drawing spatially closer to something; "the hunter''s approach scattered the geese"

Noun
the temporal property of becoming nearer in time; "the approach of winter"


p. pr & vb. n.
of Come

a.
Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.

a.
Ready to come; complaisant; fond.

n.
Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.

n.
Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ.


Coming

Com"ing , a. 1. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting, guest.
Your coming days and years.
2. Ready to come; complaisant; fond. [Obs.] Pope.

Coming

Com"ing, n. 1. Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train. 2. Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ. Coming in. (a) Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning. "The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof." Ezek. xliii. 11 (b) Income or revenue. "What are thy comings in?" Shak.

Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.

Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.

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Usage Examples

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

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