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ings

ings is the plural of ing.

Meaning of ing

Noun (1)

ing (plural ings)

  1. (now only in dialects) A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.
    • Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.

Noun (2)

ing (plural ings)

  1. The letter for the ng sound /ŋ/ in Pitman shorthand.

See all 3 meanings of ing

Proper noun capitalized: Ings

Ings (countable and uncountable, plural Ingses)

  1. A surname.
  2. A small village in Hugill parish, South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD4498).

Forms of ings

pluralIngses

Phrases with ings

Questions about ings

What does ings mean?
Ings means a surname.
What is ings the plural of?
Ings is the plural of ing.
What part of speech is ings?
Ings is a proper noun.

Words near ings in the dictionary

  1. ingrows
  2. ingrowth
  3. ingrowths
  4. Ingrum
  5. Ingrums
  6. ings
  7. Inguanzo
  8. Inguanzos
  9. Ingudam
  10. inguen
  11. inguens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ings (page history and authors); Ings (page history and authors); ing (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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