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carpetings

carpetings is the plural of carpeting.

Meaning of carpeting

Noun

carpeting (usually uncountable, plural carpetings)

  1. (usually) Carpet or a piece of carpet, especially when speaking of installation or removal.
    • As part of the restoration of the house, they took up the carpeting and left the hardwood floors exposed.
  2. (usually) Cloth or materials for carpets.
  3. (informal, usually) A severe reprimand or telling-off.
    • She got a carpeting from the boss.

Questions about carpetings

What is carpetings the plural of?
Carpetings is the plural of carpeting.

Words near carpetings in the dictionary

  1. carpetgrasses
  2. carpeth
  3. carpetimycin
  4. carpetimycins
  5. carpeting
  6. carpetings
  7. carpetlayer
  8. carpetlayers
  9. carpetless
  10. carpetlessness
  11. carpetlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carpetings (page history and authors); carpeting (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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