Definitions

Second Coming

NOUN

anticipated return of jesus

Synonyms

WEAK

Second Advent Second Coming of Christ advent parousiamania

Example Sentences

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Critics and fans expected the second coming of “Sgt. Pepper’s.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

She is a two-time World Cup gold medallist, her second coming in the big air in Secret Garden, China, in November.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Where students and young professionals see “co-living,” other tenants may see these structures as the second coming of the single-room-occupancy hotel.

From Slate • Jul. 31, 2025

The Mountain fire could have been a second coming of the 2018 Woolsey fire or even the 2017 Thomas fire — if not for a few conditions that changed on the ground last week.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

Fischer told me that he thought Lopsang had the potential to be “the second coming of Reinhold Messner”—the famous Tyrolean alpinist who is far and away the greatest Himalayan climber of all time.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer