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awnings

awnings is the plural of awning.

Meaning of awning

Noun

awning (plural awnings)

  1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
    • At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265
  2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

Questions about awnings

What is awnings the plural of?
Awnings is the plural of awning.

Words near awnings in the dictionary

  1. Awngi
  2. awning
  3. awning window
  4. awning windows
  5. awninged
  6. awnings
  7. awnless
  8. awnlessness
  9. awnlet
  10. awnlets
  11. awnlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: awnings (page history and authors); awning (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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