up-and-coming

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[onlybeforenoun] (informal) likely to be successful and popular in the future: up-and-coming young actors

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

up-and-comingEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary up-and-comingEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

Nearby in the dictionary

unwonted unworkable unworldly unworried unworthy unwound unwrap unwritten unyielding unzip up

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