comingとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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

動詞

coming

1. present participle of come

派生語

• a long time coming
• have it coming
• see coming

語源 2

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

名詞

coming (複数形 comings)

1. The act of arriving; an arrival.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt

     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, […]

派生語

• aftercoming
• forecoming
• forthcoming
• gaincoming
• second coming

形容詞

coming (not comparable)

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

   See you the/this Sunday coming! -Well, maybe I can't the/this coming Sunday but on Sunday week.

   She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.

   • 1807, Byron, George Gordon, To the Earl of Clare:

     Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless,

2. Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.

   Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.

3. (obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
   • 1733-1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace:

     How coming to the poet every muse!

   • 1697, Dryden, John, “Dedication of the Æneis”, in The Works of Virgil:

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

同意語

• (of the future): unborn; see also Thesaurus:future