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skyling

skyling noun: a being from the sky or heavens.

Noun

skyling (plural skylings)

  1. A being from the sky or heavens.
    • Our actor is either one whose ambitions lead him to hitch his wagon to a star and scorn all sublunary things, or one stolidly content to please — not the aristocratic groundlings, but the skylings.1899, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine ... - Volume 26 - Page 124
    • For the first time I realised with amazing clearness that the sky was no blue expanse overhead but an abyss . . . and that we live in that sky stuck to a speck, the earth, and ought really to be called skylings, not earthlings. Miserable skylings!1962, Clifton Reginald Walker, Destination: Amaltheia - Page 60

Forms of skyling

pluralskylings

Origin of skyling

From sky + -ling.

Questions about skyling

What does skyling mean?
Skyling means a being from the sky or heavens.
What part of speech is skyling?
Skyling is a noun.
What is the plural of skyling?
The plural of skyling is skylings.

Words near skyling in the dictionary

  1. skyline
  2. skyline operator
  3. skyline operators
  4. skylined
  5. skylines
  6. skyling
  7. skylings
  8. skylining
  9. skylit
  10. skyllamycin
  11. skyllamycins

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