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warmings

warmings is the plural of warming.

Meaning of warming

Noun

warming (plural warmings)

  1. A small rise in temperature.
    • The forecast calls for a slight warming trend in the coming days, with sunny skies and daytime temperatures reaching the midteens on Sunday and Monday, when the men will hit the snowboard course.2022 February 4, John Branch, “U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson qualifies for the slopestyle final.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2022
  2. (slang) A beating; a thrashing.
    • More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.2017, Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth, page 193

Phrases with warmings

Questions about warmings

What is warmings the plural of?
Warmings is the plural of warming.

Words near warmings in the dictionary

  1. warming-room
  2. Warmingham
  3. warmingly
  4. warmingol
  5. warmingone
  6. warmings
  7. Warmington
  8. Warminster
  9. warmish
  10. warmist
  11. warmists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: warmings (page history and authors); warming (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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