welling
/ˈwɛlɪŋ/UK/ˈwɛlɪŋ/
welling is the present participle and gerund of well.
Meaning of well
Verb
well (third-person singular simple present wells, present participle welling, simple past and past participle welled)
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
- [Blood] welled from out the wound.1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- Her eyes welled with tears.
Noun
welling (plural wellings)
- The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
- It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32
- Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.1947, T. A. Jaggar, Origin and Development of Craters
Proper noun capitalized: Welling
Welling (countable and uncountable, plural Wellings)
- A surname.
- A suburban area in the borough of Bexley, south-eastern Greater London, England, historically in Kent (OS grid ref TQ4676).
- A municipality in Mayen-Koblenz district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- A hamlet in Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
- A census-designated place in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States.
Forms of welling
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wellings |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Wellings |
Words formed from welling
Phrases with welling
Words that rhyme with welling
- shelling
- spelling
- telling
- compelling
- swelling
- belling
- selling
- smelling
- cabbeling
- dwelling
- felling
- gelling
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Questions about welling
- What does welling mean?
- Welling means the act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
- What is welling the present participle and gerund of?
- Welling is the present participle and gerund of well.
- What part of speech is welling?
- Welling can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce welling?
- Welling is pronounced /ˈwɛlɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of welling?
- The plural of welling is wellings.
Words near welling in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: welling (page history and authors); Welling (page history and authors); well (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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