Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that arrives or comes.
- noun One showing promise of attaining success.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In stock-raising, an animal that is ‘coming on’ or promises well.
- noun One who comes; one who approaches, or has lately arrived: often applied to things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.
- noun all who come, or offer, to take part in a matter, especially in a contest or controversy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning
- noun figuratively one who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory
- noun One who arrives
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone with a promising future
- noun someone who arrives (or has arrived)
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Examples
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Luv luv luv that Jay Baruchel, a home grown Canadian boy and up and comer, is in this video.
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Calling him an up-and-comer is an understatement - he's already a phenomenal actor who has been in quite a bit, you just haven't come to memorize his name and his face yet, but you will soon enough.
Interview: Chiwetel Ejiofor on Redbelt, Serenity, and Watchmen « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Strombel informs Sondra that Peter Lyman, a handsome London aristocrat and political up-and-comer, is actually a serial murderer known as the Tarot Card Killer.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2006
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Perhaps Welch's oddball tales of "deep diving" into the many forlorn crannies of General Electric with some young comer from the Appliances Division fascinate the business elite.
Books About Schnooks 2004
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Perhaps Welch's oddball tales of "deep diving" into the many forlorn crannies of General Electric with some young comer from the Appliances Division fascinate the business elite.
Books About Schnooks 2004
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In another comer was a fairly large puddle of congealing puke.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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In a comer was the large wooden cupboard; close by, the table; a bench against the wall; on the other side of the door the sink and the pump.
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If the comer is a traveller, assist him as ye are able; but let him not stay with you but for two or three days, if it be necessary.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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In a comer was the large wooden cupboard; close by, the table; a bench against the wall; on the other side of the door the sink and the pump.
Maria Chapdelaine Louis H��mon 1896
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The comer was a young girl clothed in a white woollen garment, which was bound about her waist with a green cord; she was bareheaded; on her feet were thick sandals, bound also with thongs of green.
The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892
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