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ballinger

/ˈbælɪndʒəɹ/

ballinger is the alternative spelling of balinger.

Meaning of balinger

Noun

balinger (plural balingers)

  1. (historical) A small medieval sea-going ship with oars and sails.

Proper noun capitalized: Ballinger

Ballinger (countable and uncountable, plural Ballingers)

  1. A surname.
  2. A city, the county seat of Runnels County, Texas, United States.
  3. A hamlet in Chiltern district, Buckinghamshire, England, shown as Ballinger Bottom and Ballinger Common on Ordnance Survey maps (OS grid ref SP9103).

Forms of ballinger

Noun
pluralballingers
Proper noun
pluralBallingers

Questions about ballinger

What does ballinger mean?
Ballinger means a surname.
What is ballinger the alternative spelling of?
Ballinger is the alternative spelling of balinger.
What part of speech is ballinger?
Ballinger is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ballinger?
Ballinger is pronounced /ˈbælɪndʒəɹ/.

Words near ballinger in the dictionary

  1. Balling scale
  2. balling up
  3. balling-iron
  4. balling-irons
  5. Ballingarrane
  6. ballinger
  7. ballingers
  8. Ballingham
  9. ballings
  10. Ballington
  11. Ballinlough

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ballinger (page history and authors); Ballinger (page history and authors); balinger (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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