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gooding

gooding is the present participle and gerund of good.

Meaning of good

Verb

good (third-person singular simple present goods, present participle gooding, simple past and past participle gooded)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
  2. (dialectal, transitive) To make good; turn to good; improve.
  3. (dialectal, intransitive) To make improvements or repairs.
  4. (dialectal, intransitive) To benefit; gain.
  5. (dialectal, transitive) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
  6. (dialectal, transitive) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.

See all 48 meanings of good

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Gooding

Gooding (plural Goodings)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Gooding

Gooding

  1. An unincorporated community in Boulder County, Colorado, United States.
  2. A city, the county seat of Gooding County, Idaho, United States.

Forms of gooding

pluralGoodings
alternative formGodding
alternative formGoding
alternative formGoodinge
alternative formGoodings

Origin of gooding

From the Old English hypocorism Gōding, from gōd (“god”) + -ing (“diminutive suffix”).

Words formed from gooding

Questions about gooding

What does gooding mean?
Gooding means a surname.
What is gooding the present participle and gerund of?
Gooding is the present participle and gerund of good.
What part of speech is gooding?
Gooding is a proper noun.

Words near gooding in the dictionary

  1. goodifying
  2. Goodin
  3. Goodine
  4. Goodines
  5. goodiness
  6. gooding
  7. Gooding County
  8. Goodings
  9. Goodins
  10. goodish
  11. goodishness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gooding (page history and authors); Gooding (page history and authors); good (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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