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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COMER, n. One that comes; one who approaches; one who has arrived and is present.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone with a promising future
2: someone who arrives (or has arrived) [syn: arrival, arriver, comer]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. one that comes or arrives <welcomed all comers> 2. one making rapid progress or showing promise

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a person who comes, esp. as an applicant, participant, etc. (offered the job to the first comer). 2 colloq. a person likely to be a success. Phrases and idioms: all comers any applicants (with reference to a position, or esp. a challenge to a champion, that is unrestricted in entry).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Comer Com"er, n. One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present. All comers, all who come, or offer, to take part in a matter, especially in a contest or controversy. ``To prove it against all comers.'' --Bp. Stillingfleet.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(comers) You can use comers to refer to people who arrive at a particular place. I arrived at the church at two-thirty p.m. to find some early comers outside the main door... The first comer was the Sultan himself. N-COUNT: usu pl, supp N see also all-comers, latecomer, newcomer

Moby Thesaurus

Young Turk, arrival, arriviste, bright young man, entrant, fledgling, immigrant, in-migrant, incomer, intruder, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist, modernizer, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate, neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new generation, new man, newcomer, nouveau riche, novus homo, parvenu, rising generation, settler, star, stripling, success, upstart, victor, visitant, visitor, winner