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wakings

wakings is the plural of waking.

Meaning of waking

Noun

waking (plural wakings)

  1. The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.
    • […] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, page 144

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Questions about wakings

What is wakings the plural of?
Wakings is the plural of waking.

Words near wakings in the dictionary

  1. waking up and smelling the roses
  2. waking up dead
  3. waking up on the wrong side of bed
  4. waking up one day
  5. wakingly
  6. wakings
  7. wakipai
  8. Wakisi
  9. wakiup
  10. wakiups
  11. wakizashi

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