Meanings
- alternativeno pluralAlternative form of to-come (“future”).
This will ensure that we shall not need to depend on a^([sic]) outside uranium to make electricity in the tocome.
2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning1 more example
Legion was perhaps the only one of all the forty who looked forward to wearing his Majesty's uniform with satisfaction, a lad to whom the Tocome seemed always promising, and the Present never unbearable.
1870, J. Payn, The F. B.; being a history of the school and college life of two young men, page 166
Origin
- Old Englishtōcyme
- Middle Englishtocome
- Englishtocome
From to + come, or from Middle English tocome, from Old English tōcyme.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
tocome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tocome
“tocome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tocome. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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