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roisterings

roisterings is the plural of roistering.

Meaning of roistering

Noun

roistering (plural roisterings)

  1. Noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.
    • [H]e could look on with an eye of kindness at the lookers-on too; at the roystering youth bent upon enjoyment, and here taking it […]1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

Questions about roisterings

What is roisterings the plural of?
Roisterings is the plural of roistering.

Words near roisterings in the dictionary

  1. roistered
  2. roisterer
  3. roisterers
  4. roistering
  5. roisteringly
  6. roisterings
  7. roisterly
  8. roisterous
  9. roisterously
  10. roisterousness
  11. roisters

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