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Coming   /kˈəmɪŋ/   Listen
Coming

adjective
1.
Of the relatively near future.  Synonyms: approaching, forthcoming, upcoming.  "This coming Thursday" , "The forthcoming holidays" , "The upcoming spring fashions"
noun
1.
The act of drawing spatially closer to something.  Synonyms: approach, approaching.
2.
Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous).  Synonym: advent.
3.
The temporal property of becoming nearer in time.  Synonyms: approach, approaching.
4.
The moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse.  Synonyms: climax, orgasm, sexual climax.


Come

verb
(past came; past part. come; pres. part. coming)
1.
Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody.  Synonym: come up.  "Come with me to the Casbah" , "Come down here!" , "Come out of the closet!" , "Come into the room"  Antonym: go.
2.
Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress.  Synonyms: arrive, get.  "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"  Antonym: leave.
3.
Come to pass; arrive, as in due course.  "It came as a shock" , "Dawn comes early in June"
4.
Reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position.  "We came to understand the true meaning of life" , "Their anger came to a boil" , "I came to realize the true meaning of life" , "The shoes came untied" , "Come into contact with a terrorist group" , "His face went red" , "Your wish will come true"
5.
To be the product or result.  Synonym: follow.  "Understanding comes from experience"
6.
Be found or available.
7.
Come forth.  Synonym: issue forth.  "His breath came hard"
8.
Be a native of.  Synonym: hail.
9.
Extend or reach.  "The sleeves come to your knuckles"
10.
Exist or occur in a certain point in a series.
11.
Cover a certain distance.
12.
Come under, be classified or included.  Synonym: fall.  "This comes under a new heading"
13.
Happen as a result.
14.
Add up in number or quantity.  Synonyms: add up, amount, number, total.  "The bill came to $2,000"
15.
Develop into.  Synonyms: add up, amount.  "Nothing came of his grandiose plans"
16.
Be received.  Synonym: come in.
17.
Come to one's mind; suggest itself.  Synonym: occur.  "A great idea then came to her"
18.
Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example.  Synonyms: derive, descend.  "He comes from humble origins"
19.
Proceed or get along.  Synonyms: do, fare, get along, make out.  "How are you making out in graduate school?" , "He's come a long way"
20.
Experience orgasm.
21.
Have a certain priority.



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"Coming" Quotes from Famous Books



... heat of the day, but always after careful inspection of his chosen pool, and one day fled in haste up the black rocks at sight of the tip of a long, quivering, flesh-coloured tentacle coming curling round a rock in the close neighbourhood of the pool in which he ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham
... a mere child, and coming back a man, the impression produced upon me by all those objects that I had treasured up in my memory is a singular one. Everything appears to me more diminutive, much more diminutive, but also more pleasing to the eye, than my recollection of it. My father's ...
— Pepita Ximenez • Juan Valera
... though it might be, seemed so small amid that deadly clamor and awful expectation! Moreover, the intellect which worked so calmly and vigorously by his side, and which alone of all things near appeared able to rule the coming crisis, began to dominate him, in spite of his sense of injury. A thought crossed him to the effect that the great among men are too valuable to be punished for their evil deeds. He turned to the absorbed ...
— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various
... great tasks assigned them. There is no doubt that if the ruling classes had been willing to recognize these natural leaders as men of the same race, blood, tongue and capacity as themselves, and had reached down to them a helping and kindly hand, there might have been long since a coming together of the two great divisions of society; and such a readjustment of the values of labor as would, while it insured happiness to those below, have not materially lessened the enjoyments of those above. But the events which ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly
... not about the slave, but the poor Indian, who has been far worse treated than the slave was or ever will be. Only to think of the white people coming here, plundering their villages, and building on their hunting grounds, just as if it belonged to them, when all the while it was the Indians'. Now, if they had bought it and paid for it, honorably, as William Penn ...
— A Child's Anti-Slavery Book - Containing a Few Words About American Slave Children and Stories - of Slave-Life. • Various


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