coming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of come

1. by ellipsisUsed to express that one is on the way.

   — Coming

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   — FBI! Open up!

plural comings

1. The act of arriving; an arrival.

   The coming of a season.

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   Weekend's coming [≠ Weekend is coming]

   A new coming / A second coming

   Winter's coming happened earlier this year.

   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, […]

   1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

1. not comparableApproaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.

   We expect great things from you this coming year.

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

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

   1807, George Gordon Byron, To the Earl of Clare

   The forecast calls for a slight warming trend in the coming days, with sunny skies and daytime temperatures reaching the midteens on Sunday and Monday, when the men will hit the snowboard course.

   2022 February 4, John Branch, “U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson qualifies for the slopestyle final.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022

   Synonyms: unborn

2. not comparableNewly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.

   Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.

3. not comparableobsoleteReady to come; complaisant; fond.

   How coming to the poet every muse!

   1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]

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

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