to come

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See also: tocome and to-come

English

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Alternative forms

  • (journalism, abbreviation) TK

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Adjective

to come (not comparable)

  1. Imminent; coming; future.
    • 2002 December 18, 23:56 from the start, in Meat Eaters (The Life of Mammals), season 1, episode 5, David Attenborough (actor):
      It's a bonding session that reminds each hunter of its place in the team — invaluable in the struggle to come.
    • 2024, Jackie Evancho, “Behind My Eyes”, in Solla:
      I, I've been getting kinda scared / And feeling unprepared / For what's to come

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  • To come is not a true adjective; rather, syntactically, it is simply the to-infinitive of the verb come. As a result, it follows the noun that it modifies, rather than preceding it.

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Noun

to come

  1. alternative form of tocome