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COMING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coming mean?
• COMING (noun)
The noun COMING has 4 senses:
1. the act of drawing spatially closer to something
2. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
3. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
4. the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
Familiarity information: COMING used as a noun is uncommon.
• COMING (adjective)
The adjective COMING has 1 sense:
1. of the relatively near future
Familiarity information: COMING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of drawing spatially closer to something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
approach; approaching; coming
Context example:
the hunter's approach scattered the geese
Hypernyms ("coming" is a kind of...):
motion; move; movement (the act of changing location from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coming"):
access (the act of approaching or entering)
closing; closure (approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap)
landing approach (the approach to a landing field by an airplane)
run-up (the approach run during which an athlete gathers speed)
Derivation:
come (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
advent; coming
Context example:
the advent of the computer
Hypernyms ("coming" is a kind of...):
arrival; reaching (accomplishment of an objective)
Derivation:
come (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The temporal property of becoming nearer in time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
approach; approaching; coming
Context example:
the approach of winter
Hypernyms ("coming" is a kind of...):
timing (the time when something happens)
Derivation:
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
climax; coming; orgasm; sexual climax
Hypernyms ("coming" is a kind of...):
consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coming"):
male orgasm (an orgasm accompanied by the sensation of ejaculation of semen)
Derivation:
come (experience orgasm)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of the relatively near future
Synonyms:
approaching; coming; forthcoming; upcoming
Context example:
the upcoming spring fashions
Similar:
future (yet to be or coming)
Context examples
You can imagine my surprise when, as I looked down this corridor, I saw a glimmer of light coming from the open door of the library.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If it had not been for her coming, I should not have known where his hiding-place was.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For you, it involved either a random expense you never saw coming or the amount of a commission, royalty, or fee.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
About noon, I saw coming towards the house a kind of vehicle drawn like a sledge by four Yahoos.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Martin turned as he staggered, and saw the fist coming at him in a wild swing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I could distinguish the outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming in.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What I saw was the Count's head coming out from the window.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As the moose were coming into the land, other kinds of life were coming in.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I gathered from what they said, that an elder sister of his was coming to stay with them, and that she was expected that evening.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then the procession started on, little spurts of strength coming into White Fang's muscles as he used them and the blood began to surge through them.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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