| 1. | the next world; the hereafter; heaven. |
| 2. | Informal. a place or future time seemingly very remote: You could keep it up till kingdom come. |

| kingdom come n. Informal
[From the phrase thy kingdom come in the Lord's Prayer.] |
The next world; the afterlife: “The superpowers have enough nuclear warheads to blow the entire world to kingdom come.” An allusion to the Lord's Prayer: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.”