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upcoming

upcoming adjective: happening or appearing in the relatively near future. Also the present participle and gerund of upcome.

Adjective

upcoming (not comparable)

  1. Happening or appearing in the relatively near future.
    • We are ready for whatever is upcoming.
    • The Federal budget lays out government spending for the upcoming budget year.
  2. Eggcorn of up-and-coming.
    • The finals for the men's black belt championship saw Moon, an old pro, face an upcoming young rookie, Johnny Wooley.1967 August, “U.S. Karate Championships”, in Black Belt, Active Interest Media, →ISSN, page 51

Noun (1)

upcoming (plural upcomings)

  1. The act of coming up.
  2. Comeuppance; deserts.

Noun (2)

upcoming (plural upcomings)

  1. The activity of to upcome.

Also used as

upcoming is also the present participle and gerund of upcome.

upcoming meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

upcoming in Tamil

வரவிருக்கும்

upcoming in Telugu

రాబోయేది

upcoming in Malayalam

വരാനിരിക്കുന്ന, വരാനിരിക്കുന്നവർ, വരാനിരിക്കുന്നവ

upcoming in Kannada

ಮುಂಬರುವ
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upcoming in Indonesian
segera

Examples of upcoming in a sentence

  • This is to acknowledge your kind invitation to participate in the upcoming debate.
  • The judge said she would not be a runner in the upcoming elections.
  • Mabel dreaded the upcoming ball and the preliminary corseting it would entail.

All 40 example sentences with upcoming

Forms of upcoming

pluralupcomings

Origin of upcoming

From up + coming.

From upcome + -ing.

Questions about upcoming

What does upcoming mean?
Upcoming means happening or appearing in the relatively near future.
What is upcoming in Tamil?
Upcoming in Tamil is வரவிருக்கும். See Upcoming meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is upcoming?
Upcoming can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near upcoming in the dictionary

  1. upcoils
  2. upcome
  3. upcomer
  4. upcomers
  5. upcomes
  6. upcoming
  7. upcomings
  8. upcomming
  9. upconcentrate
  10. upconcentrated
  11. upconcentrates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: upcoming (page history and authors); upcoming (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); upcoming (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); upcoming (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); upcoming (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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