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wintering

wintering is the present participle and gerund of winter.

Meaning of winter

Verb

winter (third-person singular simple present winters, present participle wintering, simple past and past participle wintered)

  1. (intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
    • She had summered in England and France and Germany and Switzerland. She had wintered in Italy and Egypt and India and Spain.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter II, page 282
  2. (transitive) To store something (for instance animals) somewhere over winter to protect it from cold.

See all 13 meanings of winter

Noun

wintering (plural winterings)

  1. The act of staying at a place throughout the winter.
    • Other winterings followed in 1795 and on four occasions in the 1820s, but one in 1834–1835 ended with the death of all members of a seven-man party.2003, William J. Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia

Forms of wintering

pluralwinterings

Phrases with wintering

Questions about wintering

What does wintering mean?
Wintering means the act of staying at a place throughout the winter.
What is wintering the present participle and gerund of?
Wintering is the present participle and gerund of winter.
What part of speech is wintering?
Wintering is a noun.
What is the plural of wintering?
The plural of wintering is winterings.

Words near wintering in the dictionary

  1. winterhouses
  2. winterier
  3. winteriest
  4. winterim
  5. winterims
  6. wintering
  7. Winteringham
  8. winterings
  9. winterisation
  10. winterisations
  11. winterise

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