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redding

redding is the present participle and gerund of redd.

Meaning of redd

Verb

redd (third-person singular simple present redds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redd or redded)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) To free from entanglement.
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) To free from embarrassment.
  3. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) To fix boundaries.
  4. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) To comb hair.
  5. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) To separate combatants.
  6. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) To settle, usually a quarrel.

See all 10 meanings of redd

Proper noun capitalized: Redding

Redding

  1. A surname.
  2. A city, the county seat of Shasta County, California.
    • Weʼre in Redding – a little west of Redding in a park, really. Redding is a sizable city.1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 328
    • Rose Wyckoff holds up three kittens August 10 in a Redding neighborhood that has been destroyed by the Carr Fire.2018 August 13, “Massive wildfires scorching California”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 May 2026
  3. A town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
    • "We know energy demand in Fairfield County is growing, whether it's 1.25 percent, 2 percent or 3 percent," said Joe Dolan, a Redding resident and president of Communities for Responsible Energy, an umbrella organization comprising representatives from four of the towns challenging C. L. and P.'s...2001 December 23, Gary Santaniello, “A Surge in Controversy for Power Proposal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 May 2015
  4. A township in Jackson County, Indiana.
  5. An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Indiana.
  6. A minor city in Ringgold County, Iowa.
  7. A township in Clare County, Michigan.
  8. A village in Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9278).
  9. (misspelling) Misspelling of Reading.

Origin of redding

Heterographic variant of Reading.

Words formed from redding

Phrases with redding

Words that rhyme with redding

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Questions about redding

What does redding mean?
Redding means a surname.
What is redding the present participle and gerund of?
Redding is the present participle and gerund of redd.
What part of speech is redding?
Redding is a proper noun.

Words near redding in the dictionary

  1. Reddi
  2. Reddick
  3. Reddicks
  4. Reddies
  5. Reddin
  6. redding
  7. Redding Ridge
  8. redding up
  9. Reddinger
  10. Reddingers
  11. reddingite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: redding (page history and authors); Redding (page history and authors); redd (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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