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lengthenings

lengthenings is the plural of lengthening.

Meaning of lengthening

Noun

lengthening (plural lengthenings)

  1. The process of making or growing longer.
    • This enabled an additional 15-20 containers to be carried per train, giving a 20% productivity gain, and was partly enabled by Network Rail completing the lengthening of loops on the route northwards from Southampton via Banbury.2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Train Lengthening”, in RAIL, number 940, page 56
  2. a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens

Phrases with lengthenings

Questions about lengthenings

What is lengthenings the plural of?
Lengthenings is the plural of lengthening.

Words near lengthenings in the dictionary

  1. lengtheneth
  2. lengthening
  3. lengthening down
  4. lengthening out
  5. lengthening up
  6. lengthenings
  7. lengthens
  8. lengthens down
  9. lengthens out
  10. lengthens up
  11. lengther

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lengthenings (page history and authors); lengthening (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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