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coming

verb
/ˈkʌmɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English cominge, comynge, comande, from Old English cumende, from Proto-Germanic *kwemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to come + -ing (present participle ending). Cognate with Dutch komend (“coming”), German kommend (“coming”), Swedish kommande (“coming”), Icelandic komandi (“coming”).

  1. derived from *kwemaną✻ — “to come”
  2. inherited from *kwemandz✻
  3. inherited from cumende
  4. inherited from cominge

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of come

  2. The act of arriving

    The act of arriving; an arrival.

    • The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday.
    • 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, […]

  3. Approaching

    Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.

    • We expect great things from you this coming year.
    • She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.
    • Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless,
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Newly in fashion

      Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.

      • Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.

    2. Ready to come

      Ready to come; complaisant; fond.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

coming on, this coming, up-and-coming

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at coming. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at coming. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at coming

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA