kingdom come
/ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkɑm/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The place that one will go to after one's death; the afterlife.
Colloquial; Countable; Uncountable
noun
The place that one will go to after one's death; the afterlife.
Colloquial; Countable; Uncountable
noun
The rule of God over the world in the future; especially, according to those believing in millenarianism, during a period of peace beginning with the second coming of Jesus Christ and lasting a millennium.
Uncountable
noun
A future period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress; a golden age that is approaching.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "'[…] I infer that he was rather nervous, sir, for he shot at me without saying a word.' 'If only he'd had the sense to do that in my case we might both be in Kingdom Come now.'"
- ""And where are all these brothers and sisters?" demanded the stranger. / "Dead! dead as herrings—gone to kingdom come a precious long time ago.["]"
- "Somewhere between the O's and ones / That's where I found my kingdom come"
Etymology
From the phrase “Thy kingdom come” from the Lord’s Prayer which is recorded in Matthew 6:9–13 and Luke 11:2–4 in the Bible: see, for example, Matthew 6:10 in the King James Version (spelling modernized): “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven.” By these sentences, Jesus seeks the establishment of the rule of God the Father over the Earth in the future.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkɑm/
- British English: /ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkʌm/