coming upon

1. 1.

   a casual meeting with a person or thing

   Synonymsencounter

   Broaderjoining

Questions about coming upon

What does coming upon mean?

coming upon means "a casual meeting with a person or thing".

What is another word for coming upon?

Close synonyms include encounter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coming upon a common word?

coming upon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.