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ming

/mɪŋ/UK/mɪŋ/

ming verb: to mix, blend, mingle.

Verb (1)

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged or meint or ment or meynt)

  1. (archaic) To mix, blend, mingle.
    • I founde here and there litle peces of marquesites and stones, menged with copper, but I could by no sense or wit perceyue, that the bathes had any notable qualitie thereof.1562, William Turner, Baths
  2. (obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
    • the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (Ireland, UK, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.

Noun (1)

ming (plural mings)

  1. (Ireland, UK) A mixture.
  2. (UK, obsolete, land) The state of being under mixed ownership; land under mixed ownership, particularly without physical demarcations designating ownership.
    • 17 September 1811, [Description of] Counterpart of Demise from John Thorold to John Wilson of Grantham, Lincolnshire Archives, Ref. Thor 1/2/ZA25/4 Published by The National Archives, Accessed 19 June 2022.
      Property: 1. 6 acres of land in ming with a meadow of Glebe land of the rectory of...

Verb (2)

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged)

  1. (Ireland, UK, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
  2. (Ireland, UK, slang) To be foul-smelling.

Verb (3)

ming (third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To speak of, to mention.

Noun (2)

ming (uncountable)

  1. (Confucianism) Destiny, fate.

Proper noun capitalized: Ming

Ming

  1. A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Yuan to the beginning of the Qing (Ching).
    • […]the Chineſe having got the upper-hand under Hong vou, Founder of the Ming Dynaſty, the Lamas were drove out with the reſt of the Tartars.1739 [1735], P. Du Halde, “Geographical and Hiſtorical Obſervations upon the Map of THIBET”, in The General History Of China, 2nd edition, volume IV, →OCLC, page 459
    • CHWEN, King of Korea, having by his Ambaſſadors paid Homage to the Emperor Hong-vû, Founder of the Ming Dynaſty in 1368, was, by that Monarch, created King of Kau-li, preſented with a Silver Seal, and veſted with the ancient Privileges of ſacrificing to the Gods of the Rivers and Mountains of Korea.1747, A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, volume IV, London: Thomas Astley, →OCLC, page 325, column 2
    Synonyms:
    Ming dynasty
  2. A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China (China proper), as well as parts of Russia and northern Vietnam
  3. The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned
  4. A surname.
  5. A male or female given name.

Noun (3) capitalized: Ming

Ming (countable and uncountable, plural Mings)

  1. (countable) A member of the Ming dynasty.
  2. (uncountable) The pottery of the Ming era, famed for its high quality.

ming meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

ming in Hindi

मिंग

ming in Tamil

விரவு

ming in Marathi

मिंग

ming in Urdu

منگ
More languagesFewer languages
ming in Telugu
మింగ్
ming in Malayalam
മിങ്ങിലേക്ക്, മിങ്ങിന്
ming in Kannada
ಮಿಂಗ್
ming in Punjabi
ਮਿੰਗ, ਮਿੰਗ ਤੱਕ
ming in Gujarati
મિંગને
ming in Odia
ମିଙ୍ଗ୍, ମିଙ୍ଗକୁ
ming in Nepali
मिङ गर्न

Synonyms of ming

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Forms of ming

third-person singular presentmings
present participleminging
past participleminged
pastminged
past participlemeint
pastmeint
past participlement
pastment
past participlemeynt
pastmeynt
alternative formminge
alternative formmeng

Plural of ming: mings

Origin of ming

From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangijan (“to mix, knead”), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mix, blend, mingle”), German mengen (“to mix”), Danish mænge (“to rub”), Old English ġemang (“mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation”). More at among.

Backformation from minging.

From Middle English mingen, mengen, mungen, muneȝen, from Old English myngian, mynegian, ġemynegian (“to bring to mind, have in mind”), from myne (“mind”), from ġemunan (“to remember”), from Proto-Germanic *munaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Merged in Middle English with Old English ġemyndgian (“to remember, be mindful, remind, intend, commemorate, mention, exhort, impel, warn, demand payment”). More at mind.

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Phrases with ming

Words that rhyme with ming

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Questions about ming

What does ming mean?
Ming means to mix, blend, mingle.
What is ming in Hindi?
Ming in Hindi is मिंग. See Ming meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ming?
Ming can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ming?
Ming is pronounced /mɪŋ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of ming?
The past tense of ming is minged.

Words near ming in the dictionary

  1. mineworkings
  2. Minfeng
  3. Minffordd
  4. Minford
  5. Minfords
  6. ming
  7. Ming dynasty
  8. Ming vase
  9. Ming's Bight
  10. minga
  11. Mingay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ming (page history and authors); Ming (page history and authors); ming (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ming (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ming (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ming (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ming (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ming (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ming (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ming (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ming (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ming (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ming (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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