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coming into

coming into is the present participle and gerund of come into.

Meaning of come into

Verb

come into (third-person singular simple present comes into, present participle coming into, simple past came into, past participle come into)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See come and into.
    • Please come into the living room.
  2. (transitive) To obtain (usually money or property), especially through inheritance.
    • After his father died, he came into a large fortune.
  3. (transitive) To be a factor in.
    • Money doesn't come into it.
  4. (transitive) To enter the initial phase of; to commence.
    • I came into the role with no preconceptions.

Questions about coming into

What is coming into the present participle and gerund of?
Coming into is the present participle and gerund of come into.

Words near coming into in the dictionary

  1. coming in for
  2. coming in from the cold
  3. coming in handy
  4. coming in hot
  5. coming in useful
  6. coming into
  7. coming into being
  8. coming into force
  9. coming into one's own
  10. coming into play
  11. coming into the world

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coming into (page history and authors); come into (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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