to comeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

形容詞

to come (not comparable)

1. Imminent, coming, future.
   • 2002 December 18, Meat Eaters (The Life of Mammals), season 1, episode 5, 23:56 from the start:

     It's a bonding session that reminds each hunter of its place in the team — invaluable in the struggle to come.

使用する際の注意点

• To come is not a true adjective; rather, syntactically, it is simply the to-infinitive of the verb come. As a result, it follows the noun that it modifies, rather than preceding it.

同意語

• imminent, in the offing, proximate; see also Thesaurus:impending

語源

From to +‎ come, perhaps continuing Middle English tocome, from 古期英語 tōcyme (“a coming, an arrival, an approach, an advent”).

名詞

to-come (uncountable)

1. (まれに) Something which is to come.
   • 1999, James Risser, Heidegger toward the Turn, page 267:

     They denote a factual to-come. Heidegger, on the other hand, holds that time originates in the to-come, regardless of contents.

   • 2013, Maria-Daniella Dick, Derrida Wordbook, page 416:

     Of a discourse to come – on the to-come and repetition.

2. (まれに) The future.
   • 1822, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Hellas, page 49:

     The Past / Now stands before thee like an Incarnation / Of the To-come;

   • 1849 January, Greatheed, Samuel; Parken, ‎Daniel; Williams, Theophilus, “The Literature of Gothic Architecture”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 25, page 37:

     But, it is plain, they would not be competent to grapple with the 'To-come.'

   • 1871 June 1, Wood, Charles William, “Of Hope”, in The Argosy, volume 11, number 6, London: J. Ogden & Co., page 429:

     Hope, not only as concerning the future state: that, it is to be trusted, all men possess: but hope as regards the present, and the to-come, of our little narrow world.

   • 1893, Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, page 464:

     You are the future, the to-come, of the world. I congratulate you, boys and girls, that you live in this generation.

   • 1899, Browning, Robert, The Complete Works of Robert Browning, published 1912, page 476:

     With leave to clench the past, chain the to-come,
     Put out an arm and touch and take the sun […]

   • 2006, Gillies, Malcolm; Pear, ‎David; Carroll, ‎Mark, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger, page 122:

     (In the to-come [future], however, I am hoping we will score our toneworks with the full resources of the most lavish orchestra!)

   • 2018, Kanaris, Jim, Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion: A Possible Future, page 214:

     The to-come, let us say, the “absolute” future, as opposed to the future-present, is the object of our hope and desire, the stuff of a certain faith.

同意語

• (the future): to-be; see also Thesaurus:the future

参照

• to-come in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

アナグラム

• come to, moc toe