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overlings

overlings is the plural of overling.

Meaning of overling

Noun

overling (plural overlings)

  1. (rare) A superior.
    • But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, …1917, Rudyard Kipling, Mesopotamia (poem)
  2. (UK, dialectal) A ruler; master.

Questions about overlings

What is overlings the plural of?
Overlings is the plural of overling.

Words near overlings in the dictionary

  1. overling
  2. overlinger
  3. overlingered
  4. overlingering
  5. overlingers
  6. overlings
  7. overlining
  8. overlinings
  9. overlink
  10. overlinked
  11. overlinking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overlings (page history and authors); overling (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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