wings
/wɪŋz/
wings is the plural of wing.
wings is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wing.
Noun
wings
- A type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing
- A flip (hairstyle).
- Near-synonym: head wings
- Synonyms:
- head wings
- A pilot's license, the legal authorization to operate an aircraft.
- After being found liable for the crash that killed several passengers, the captain of the downed airliner lost his wings.
Meaning of wing
Noun
wing (countable and uncountable, plural wings)
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- The bird was flapping its wings
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- Human arm.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
Synonyms of wings
Phrases with wings
- wings it
- air wings
- bat wings
- hot wings
- red wings
- bite wings
- fore wings
- head wings
- hind wings
- left wings
- ring wings
- angel wings
66 more phrasesFewer phrases
- bat's wings
- bingo wings
- blood wings
- delta wings
- front wings
- goose wings
- liver wings
- right wings
- swept wings
- water wings
- flying wings
- lesser wings
- rotary wings
- bastard wings
- buffalo wings
- chicken wings
- greater wings
- oblique wings
- Rogallo wings
- rat with wings
- scorched wings
- rats with wings
- try one's wings
- earn one's wings
- clip the wings of
- earns one's wings
- earnt one's wings
- if pigs had wings
- singe one's wings
- tried one's wings
- tries one's wings
- wait in the wings
- with leaden wings
- clips the wings of
- earned one's wings
- expand one's wings
- singed one's wings
- singes one's wings
- spread one's wings
- trying one's wings
- waits in the wings
- earning one's wings
- expands one's wings
- spreads one's wings
- stretch one's wings
- waited in the wings
- clip someone's wings
- clipped the wings of
- expanded one's wings
- singeing one's wings
- waiting in the wings
- clipping the wings of
- clips someone's wings
- expanding one's wings
- fly with leaden wings
- spreading one's wings
- stretched one's wings
- stretches one's wings
- flew with leaden wings
- stretching one's wings
- clipped someone's wings
- flies with leaden wings
- flown with leaden wings
- clipping someone's wings
- flying with leaden wings
- on the wings of the wind
Words that rhyme with wings
Questions about wings
- What does wings mean?
- Wings means a type of scuba harness with an attached buoyancy compensation device: see wikipedia:Backplate and wing.
- What is wings the plural of?
- Wings is the plural of wing.
- What part of speech is wings?
- Wings is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wings?
- Wings is pronounced /wɪŋz/.
Words near wings in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wings (page history and authors); wing (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:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-wings.ogg.
Cite this entry: “wings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.