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wildings

wildings is the plural of wilding.

Meaning of wilding

Noun (1)

wilding (plural wildings)

  1. A wild apple or apple tree.
    • These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles.2023, Ray Mears, chapter 1, in British Woodland, Ebury Spotlight, →ISBN
  2. Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
    • Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (2)

wilding (countable and uncountable, plural wildings)

  1. (US) A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets.

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Noun capitalized: Wildings

Wildings

  1. (plural) plural of Wilding

Questions about wildings

What is wildings the plural of?
Wildings is the plural of wilding.
What part of speech is wildings?
Wildings is a noun.

Words near wildings in the dictionary

  1. wildies
  2. wildin'
  3. wildin' out
  4. wilding
  5. wilding out
  6. wildings
  7. wildish
  8. wildishly
  9. wildishness
  10. wildland
  11. wildlands

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