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kingdom come en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkɑm/ (US)
• /ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkʌm/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

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.

Meanings

1. (colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable) The place that one will go to after one's death; the afterlife. ▸ Death; also, a state of complete annihilation.
   • '[…] 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.' 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
2. (colloquial, countable, specifically, uncountable) The place that one will go to after one's death; the afterlife. ▸ Heaven or paradise.
   • "And where are all these brothers and sisters?" demanded the stranger. / "Dead! dead as herrings—gone to kingdom come a precious long time ago.["] 1843, Alfred Crowquill [pseudonym; Alfred Henry Forrester], “The ‘Plummy’”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIII, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, part I, page 624:
3. (uncountable) 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.
4. (broadly, countable) A future period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress; a golden age that is approaching.
   • Somewhere between the O's and ones / That's where I found my kingdom come 2024, Nemo, “The Code”:

Forms

Deriveds

until Kingdom come · blow to kingdom come

Translations (5)

bg оня свят (place that one will go to after one's death — see also afterlife) · de Jenseits (place that one will go to after one's death — see also afterlife) · ru тот свет (place that one will go to after one's death — see also afterlife) · pl zaświaty (place that one will go to after one's death — see also afterlife) · cs onen svět (place that one will go to after one's death — see also afterlife)

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