adj. Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
v. Present participle of come.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
adj. Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
n. Approach; advent; manifestation.
n. Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ, called usually the second coming.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act of one who or that which comes, in any sense of the verb. Specifically
n. Arrival.
n. The act of sprouting.
n. plural In malting, barley-shoots after the barley has been kiln-dried.
Forward; ready to come; yielding; pliable.
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n. the act of drawing spatially closer to something
n. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
n. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
n. the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
adj. of the relatively near future
Word Usage
"Thus from the general tenor of prophecy it appears that infidelity will have overspread the world _when the Son of man shall come_ to reign upon it: And as this agrees to no other coming of his foretold by the prophets, there can be no reasonable doubt what _coming_ is intended in the text."