TIME TO COME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time to come mean? 

• TIME TO COME (noun)
  The noun TIME TO COME has 1 sense:

1. the time yet to come

  Familiarity information: TIME TO COME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME TO COME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time yet to come

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

future; futurity; hereafter; time to come

Hypernyms ("time to come" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time to come"):

kingdom come (the end of time)

by-and-by (an indefinite time in the future)

offing (the near or foreseeable future)

tomorrow (the near future)

manana (an indefinite time in the future)

 Context examples 

In the time to come, I shall have a wary eye on all admirers; and shall exact a great deal from the successful one, I assure you.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"I see I have the means of fretting him out of his melancholy for some time to come."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The thing to do was clearly to bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady’s mind and prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to come.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He took out a ten-pound note, and he held it out to me then and there. ‘You can have the same every fortnight for a long time to come if you keep the terms,’ he said. ‘If not, I’ll have no more to do with you.’

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the East Cliff, reading and writing all day. Lucy seems to have become as much in love with the spot as I am, and it is hard to get her away from it when it is time to come home for lunch or tea or dinner.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I happened to look up as I went by the chaise, and so I see directly it was the youngest Miss Steele; so I took off my hat, and she knew me and called to me, and inquired after you, ma'am, and the young ladies, especially Miss Marianne, and bid me I should give her compliments and Mr. Ferrars's, their best compliments and service, and how sorry they was they had not time to come on and see you, but they was in a great hurry to go forwards, for they was going further down for a little while, but howsever, when they come back, they'd make sure to come and see you.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But he exulted in private and longed for the time to come when he could give Jo a piece of plate, with a bear and a ragged staff on it as an appropriate coat of arms.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We are not likely to meet often, for some time to come; but I shall be a good correspondent of Dora's, and we shall frequently hear of one another that way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant sufferer, forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for some time to come; but I am happy to say I can send a sufficient substitute, one in whom I have every possible confidence.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Be careful with him always that there may be nothing to excite him of this kind for a long time to come; the traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)