Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The future.

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  • noun rare The future.

Etymologies

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From to +‎ come.

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Examples

  • Gregory asks, "How long do we have to have a discussion," and points out that Paul Ryan, author of the "roadmap" and deliverer to-come of the GOP rebuttal to the SOTU, calls for "draconian" cuts to social security that the GOP won't even come behind.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • Gregory asks, "How long do we have to have a discussion," and points out that Paul Ryan, author of the "roadmap" and deliverer to-come of the GOP rebuttal to the SOTU, calls for "draconian" cuts to social security that the GOP won't even come behind.

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • The ugly feeling of privilege and status afforded by getting lucky in the lottery of birthplace (well in my case I was actually born in Tehran but lucked-out with determined to-come to-America parents, but you understand what I mean).

    Sepehr Vakil: My Trip To South Africa Sepehr Vakil 2010

  • They cling to me faithfully, and I think that my patients might fear that I was trying to usher them into the "realm -to-come", alas !

    Perfume Review: Annick Goutal Les Orientalistes- Ambre Fetiche, Myrrhe Ardente, & Encens Flamboyant Marina Geigert 2008

  • In this interview with Forbidden Planet, when asked about his to-come novel Jerusalem, the interviewer asks if it will have “one of these intractable, impenetrable first chapters like with Voice of the Fire,” to which Moore replies:

    On deciding whether to watch Watchmen 2008

  • In this interview with Forbidden Planet, when asked about his to-come novel Jerusalem, the interviewer asks if it will have “one of these intractable, impenetrable first chapters like with Voice of the Fire,” to which Moore replies:

    2008 July | Entrekin 2008

  • Deconstruction reveals that a universal democracy is always unfulfilled, always a democracy to-come.

    Kant and Carl Schmitt, Habermas and Derrida, Baudrillard and Badiou Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • S. O'BRIEN: Wasn't Paul Volcker supposed to-come in and sort of clear this all up, bring some resolution to this massively complicated problem?

    CNN Transcript May 16, 2005 2005

  • And all in the air a fluttered consciousness of the to-come, the present nothing, an hour hence everything -- like the suspense of nature before gales, and that greatness and novelty of marriage - mornings: for such a bride that day would rush to the brine as it had never embraced.

    The Lord of the Sea 1906

  • "What a place!" said the professor, halting the beast he rode, which, like its fellows, instead of paying the slightest heed seemed to welcome the rest; and they all stood bowing their heads gently as if it were a mere matter of course, and no broad hint of their fate in the to-come.

    In the Mahdi's Grasp George Manville Fenn 1870

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