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klaxoning

Syllables: klax·on·ingUK/ˈklæks(ə)nɪŋ/

klaxoning noun: the sounding of a klaxon. Also the present participle and gerund of klaxon.

Noun

klaxoning (plural klaxonings)

  1. The sounding of a klaxon.
    • There was a motor car behind them now and it blasted into the truck noise and the dust with its klaxon again and again; then flashed on lights that showed the dust like a solid yellow cloud and surged past them in a whining rise of gears and a demanding, threatening, bludgeoning of klaxoning.1940 October 21, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 42, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 445; republished London: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, 1949...

Also used as

klaxoning is also the present participle and gerund of klaxon.

Forms of klaxoning

pluralklaxonings

Origin of klaxoning

From klaxon + -ing.

Questions about klaxoning

What does klaxoning mean?
Klaxoning means the sounding of a klaxon.
What part of speech is klaxoning?
Klaxoning is a noun.
How do you pronounce klaxoning?
Klaxoning is pronounced /ˈklæks(ə)nɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the plural of klaxoning?
The plural of klaxoning is klaxonings.

Words near klaxoning in the dictionary

  1. Klawiter
  2. Klawitter
  3. Klawitters
  4. klaxon
  5. klaxoned
  6. klaxoning
  7. klaxonings
  8. klaxons
  9. Klayman
  10. Klazminskian
  11. klazomaniac

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