Word.ws English Dictionary

urnings

urnings is the plural of urning.

Meaning of urning

Noun

urning (plural urnings)

  1. (obsolete) A homosexual person, especially a man.
    • The urning loves and deifies the male object of his affections, just as a man idealizes the woman he loves.1886, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, F. A. Davis Co, published 1894, page 255

Questions about urnings

What is urnings the plural of?
Urnings is the plural of urning.

Words near urnings in the dictionary

  1. urnfuls
  2. urniform
  3. urnigerate
  4. urning
  5. urningism
  6. urnings
  7. urnism
  8. urnless
  9. urnlike
  10. urns
  11. urnsful

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: urnings (page history and authors); urning (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “urnings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/urnings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.