kingdom come

plural kingdoms come · plural kingdom comes

1. The place that one will go to after one's death; the afterlife.
   1. colloquialcountablefigurativelyuncountableDeath; also, a state of complete annihilation.

      '[…] I infer that he was rather nervous, sir, for he shot at me without saying a word.' 'If only he'd had the sense to do that in my case we might both be in Kingdom Come now.'

      1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

   2. colloquialcountablespecificallyuncountableChristianityHeaven or paradise.

      "And where are all these brothers and sisters?" demanded the stranger. / "Dead! dead as herrings—gone to kingdom come a precious long time ago.["]

      1843, Alfred Crowquill [pseudonym; Alfred Henry Forrester], “The ‘Plummy’”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIII, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, part I, page 624

2. uncountableChristianityThe rule of God over the world in the future; especially, according to those believing in millenarianism, during a period of peace beginning with the second coming of Jesus Christ and lasting a millennium.
3. broadlycountableA future period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress; a golden age that is approaching.

   Somewhere between the O's and ones / That's where I found my kingdom come

   2024, Nemo, “The Code”