fairings
fairings is the plural of fairing.
Meaning of fairing
Noun (1)
fairing (plural fairings)
- A gift or other souvenir bought at a fair.
- She told me she was on her way to the fair in Bolzano and assumed I was going there too. Should we meet there, I must buy her a fairing [translating Jahrmarkt].1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 28
- A present, especially given by a lover.
- Something that is deserved; one's deserts.
- A type of small gingerbread biscuit; a ginger nut.
- […] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed...1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part I, Chapter 2
Noun (2)
fairing (plural fairings)
- A covering on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that streamlines it (i.e., produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag).
- The fairing over the driving motion of this engine, and of the 4-6-2s, was removed subsequently, to give greater accessibility to the working parts.1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 660
Phrases with fairings
Questions about fairings
- What is fairings the plural of?
- Fairings is the plural of fairing.
Words near fairings in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fairings (page history and authors); fairing (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “fairings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fairings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.