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yearnings

yearnings is the plural of yearning.

Meaning of yearning

Noun (1)

yearning (plural yearnings)

  1. A wistful or melancholy longing.
    • She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.

Noun (2)

yearning (countable and uncountable, plural yearnings)

  1. (Scotland, archaic) Rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
    • Mrs. MacClarty then took down a bottle of rennet, or yearning, as she called it.1808, Elizabeth Hamilton, Cottagers of Glenburnie

Questions about yearnings

What is yearnings the plural of?
Yearnings is the plural of yearning.

Words near yearnings in the dictionary

  1. yearnfully
  2. yearnfulness
  3. yearning
  4. yearningly
  5. yearningness
  6. yearnings
  7. yearns
  8. yearnsome
  9. yearnt
  10. yearny
  11. yearold

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