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calvings

calvings is the plural of calving.

Meaning of calving

Noun

calving (plural calvings)

  1. The act of giving birth to a calf
  2. The breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier, iceberg etc.
  3. (broadly) The process by which an iceberg is formed.

Questions about calvings

What is calvings the plural of?
Calvings is the plural of calving.

Words near calvings in the dictionary

  1. Calvinball
  2. Calvine
  3. calving
  4. calving jack
  5. calving jacks
  6. calvings
  7. Calvini
  8. Calvinian
  9. Calvinise
  10. Calvinising
  11. Calvinism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: calvings (page history and authors); calving (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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