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byhearting

byhearting noun: memorisation; recitation. Also the present participle and gerund of byheart.

Noun

byhearting (plural byheartings)

  1. Memorisation; recitation.
    • [...] the new books tried to put forward information and make the reader think about it―a substantial move away from the rote learning that Indian schoolchildren refer to as “byhearting."2011, Patrick French, India: A Portrait

Also used as

byhearting is also the present participle and gerund of byheart.

Forms of byhearting

pluralbyheartings

Origin of byhearting

From byheart + -ing.

Questions about byhearting

What does byhearting mean?
Byhearting means memorisation; recitation.
What part of speech is byhearting?
Byhearting is a noun.
What is the plural of byhearting?
The plural of byhearting is byheartings.

Words near byhearting in the dictionary

  1. Bygraves
  2. byground
  3. bygrounds
  4. byheart
  5. byhearted
  6. byhearting
  7. byheartings
  8. byhearts
  9. byhove
  10. Byington
  11. Byingtons

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