coming meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

coming

noun

/ˈkʌmɪŋ/ · Midlands, Northern-England /ˈkʊmɪŋ/

Etymology From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).

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

Derived terms: aftercoming, coming into the world, forecoming, forthcoming, gaincoming, homecoming, second coming, shortcoming

adj

Etymology From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).

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

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Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless,1807, George Gordon Byron, To the Earl of Clare:

Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.

Obsolete Ready to come; complaisant; fond.

How coming to the poet every muse!1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:
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: