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Plural of christening

regular plural

The plural of christening is christenings.

Forms of christening

Singularchristening /ˈkɹɪs.ə.nɪŋ/
Pluralchristenings
Countablecountable

Christenings in a sentence

  • As the church sought to make these events significant with its ceremonies, so did the Communists with their “Red weddings,” “Red funerals” and “Red christenings.”1942 October, Albert Rhys Williams, “Religion in the USSR”, in Soviet Russia Today, page 15. From the entry red wedding

Meaning of christening

  1. noun The Christian sacrament at which someone, usually a child, is baptized and given a Christian name.
  2. noun Any instance of someone's or something's being christened.

Full definition of christening

Questions about the plural of christening

What is the plural of christening?
The plural of christening is christenings.
Is christening countable?
Christening is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: christening (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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