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coming and going en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, singular, uncountable, usually) A general bustle of activity.
    • Many roads and tracks crossed the green fields, and there was much coming and going: wains moving in lines towards the Great Gate, and others passing out. 1955 October 20, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Minas Tirith”, in The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings […], New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published December 1978, →ISBN, book V, page 40:
  2. (countable, idiomatic, in-plural, usually) The activities of a specified person or group.

Forms

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comings and goings Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (15)

de Kommen und Gehen (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · es ir y venir (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · nl doen en laten (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · bn আনাগোনা (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · cy mynd a dod (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · hi आना-जाना (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · it il va e vieni (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · fi menemiset (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · es idas y venidas (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · it andirivieni (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · fr faits et gestes (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · hi आवागमन (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · fr va-et-vient (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · es vaivén (plural sense: activities of a person or group) · tr gitgel (plural sense: activities of a person or group)

coming and going en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, idiomatic, participle, present) present participle and gerund of come and go
    form of come and go