comer

Plural: comers

Noun

• One who shows great promise or potential for success.
• someone with a promising future
• someone who arrives (or has arrived)
• One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
• One who is catching up in some contest and has a likelihood of victory.
• One who arrives.

Examples

• The champ will face all comers.
• The rookie player was a real COMER, quickly mastering the intricacies of Scrabble.

Synonyms

arrival, arriver

Related Words

aftercomer, come, dot-comer, downcomer, earlycomer, firstcomer, homecomer, latecomer, newcomer, up-and-comer