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gistings

gistings is the plural of gisting.

Meaning of gisting

Noun

gisting (plural gistings)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) summary, summarization/summarisation
    • Currently almost every paper seems to feel that its readers ought to be interested in the newspaper's own comments on the news, while of the news itself the reader would want merely some gistings or highlights […]1964, Michael Arnold Williams, Researching local history: the human journey, page 64

Questions about gistings

What is gistings the plural of?
Gistings is the plural of gisting.

Words near gistings in the dictionary

  1. Gissingian
  2. gist
  3. gisted
  4. gisting
  5. Gistinger
  6. gistings
  7. gists
  8. Giswil
  9. git
  10. git along
  11. git gud

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