tocome

See also: to-come and to come

English

Etymology

From to +‎ come, or from Middle English tocome, from Old English tōcyme.

Noun

tocome (plural not attested)

  1. Alternative form of to-come (“future”)
    • 1870, J. Payn, The F. B.; being a history of the school and college life of two young men, page 166:
      Legion was perhaps the only one of all the forty who looked forward to wearing his Majesty's uniform with satisfaction, a lad to whom the Tocome seemed always promising, and the Present never unbearable.
    • 2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning‎:
      This will ensure that we shall not need to depend on a[sic] outside uranium to make electricity in the tocome.

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English tōcyme (“arrival, coming”).

Noun

tocome (plural tocomes)

  1. When something comes; an arrival, onset.
  2. The future

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: to-come
  • Scots: tocome

References

Scots

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Middle English tocomen (“to come, arrive, happen”), from Old English tōcuman (“to come, arrive”), from Proto-Germanic *tō (“to”), *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to to- +‎ come. Cognate with Dutch toekomen (“to forward, deserve, merit, suffice”), German zukommen (“to come on, benefit, become”).

Verb

tocome (third-person singular simple present tocomes, present participle tocomin, simple past tocam, past participle tocomen ortocomet)

  1. (intransitive) To arrive.
  2. (of a letter, package, etc.) To arrive at, reach a destination; come to a person's attention.
  3. (of an event) To happen; to be about to happen.
  4. (transitive) To encounter
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English to-come, from Old English tōcyme (“coming, advent, arrival”).

Noun

tocome (plural tocomes)

  1. A future period of time.
    in tocum ― in the future
  2. An approach; onset.
  3. An entrance.
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