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tendring

tendring is the present participle and gerund of tendre.

Meaning of tendre

Noun

tendre (plural tendres)

  1. (archaic) Tender feeling or fondness; affection.
    • You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre […]1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Tendring

Tendring

  1. A village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1424).
  2. A local government district in Essex formed in 1974, with its headquarters in Clacton-on-Sea. Named after the Tendring Hundred, which was named after the village.

Questions about tendring

What does tendring mean?
Tendring means a village and civil parish in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM1424).
What is tendring the present participle and gerund of?
Tendring is the present participle and gerund of tendre.
What part of speech is tendring?
Tendring is a proper noun.

Words near tendring in the dictionary

  1. tendrillessness
  2. tendrillous
  3. tendrilly
  4. tendrilous
  5. tendrils
  6. tendring
  7. tendron
  8. tendrons
  9. Tendruk
  10. tendry
  11. tends

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tendring (page history and authors); Tendring (page history and authors); tendre (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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