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canterings

canterings is the plural of cantering.

Meaning of cantering

Noun

cantering (plural canterings)

  1. Movement at a canter.
    • Here are no canterings upon moonlit heaths, no merry-makings in the snuggest of all possible caverns, none of the attractions of dress, no embroidery, no lace, no jack-boots, no crimson coats and ruffles, none of the dash and freedom with which "the road" has been, time out of mind, invested.1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Questions about canterings

What is canterings the plural of?
Canterings is the plural of cantering.

Words near canterings in the dictionary

  1. canterburys
  2. cantered
  3. canterer
  4. canterers
  5. cantering
  6. canterings
  7. Cantero
  8. Canteros
  9. canters
  10. Cantes
  11. Cantey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canterings (page history and authors); cantering (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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