noun
1. the act of drawing spatially closer to something
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the hunter's approach scattered the geese
• Hyponyms: ↑access, ↑closing, ↑closure, ↑landing approach, ↑run-up
2. the event of one object coming closer to another
• Syn: ↑approach
3. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time
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the approach of winter
• Hypernyms: ↑timing
adjective
of the relatively near future
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the approaching election
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this coming Thursday
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the forthcoming holidays
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the upcoming spring fashions
• Syn: ↑coming, ↑forthcoming, ↑upcoming
• Similar to: ↑future
• Derivationally related forms: ↑forthcomingness (for: ↑forthcoming)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.