coming

Etymology 1

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

verb

1. present participle and gerund of come

Etymology 2

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

noun

1. The act of arriving; an arrival.

adj

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.
   Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless, 1807, George Gordon Byron, To the Earl of Clare
2. Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
   Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.
3. (obsolete) Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
   That he had been so affectionate a husband, was no ill argument to the coming dowager, that he might prove as kind to her. 1697, John Dryden, “Dedication of the Æneis”, in The Works of Virgil