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sonneting

sonneting is the present participle and gerund of sonnet.

Meaning of sonnet

Verb

sonnet (third-person singular simple present sonnets, present participle sonneting or sonnetting, simple past and past participle sonneted or sonnetted)

  1. (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
    • strains that come almost to sonneting1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To celebrate in sonnets; to write a sonnet about.

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Questions about sonneting

What is sonneting the present participle and gerund of?
Sonneting is the present participle and gerund of sonnet.

Words near sonneting in the dictionary

  1. sonneteerings
  2. sonneteers
  3. sonneter
  4. sonneters
  5. sonnetic
  6. sonneting
  7. sonnetise
  8. sonnetised
  9. sonnetises
  10. sonnetish
  11. sonnetising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sonneting (page history and authors); sonnet (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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