DONNING

Definition: DONNING

DONNING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Don

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DONNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Crosswords: DONNING

Specialty definitions using "DONNING": PASSENGER ATTENDANT. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Donning International Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary (reference) (more book examples)
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	After donning the appropriate chemical protective gear, Airman 1st Class Vincent Ouchana and Senior Airman Efrain Espinoza, representing Air Force Space Command, fire downrange and engage pop-up targets during the combat weapons event at Camp Bullis, Texa.		John Frost, farmer in Tehama County, California, donning his work overcoat. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"DONNING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.35% of the time. "DONNING" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	95.35%	41	53,521
Noun (singular)	4.65%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "DONNING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Donning	Last name	100	85,805
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Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "DONNING": quick-donning, tam-donning.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "DONNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		� 头 (Don, Donned). (various references)

Korean		걸침. (various references)

Pig Latin		onningday
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "DONNING": redonning. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"DONNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adonnino, danang, Dennings, donnant, Donnini, Donnino, Donough, doonan, duannian, Dunnin, Dunnings, Lonning, monning, tonning. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "DONNING" (pronounced dÄ"ning)
4	-Ä" n i ng	awning, conning, spawning.
3	-n i ng	abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-i-n-n-n-o"
	-2 letters: dingo, doing, ninon.
	-3 letters: ding, dong, nodi.
	-4 letters: dig, din, dog, don, gid, gin, god, inn, ion, nod, nog.
	-5 letters: do, go, id, in, no, od, on.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-i-n-n-n-o"
	+2 letters: condoning, nonending, nonfading, redonning.
	+3 letters: abandoning, condemning, condensing, contending, denouncing, dungeoning, inbounding, landowning, nonaligned, nonbinding, nonbonding, nonreading, unrounding.
	+4 letters: cannonading, confounding, dingdonging, indignation, innuendoing, landownings, nonbreeding, nonbuilding, nondividing, nondrinking, nonreducing.
	+5 letters: conditioning, denominating, dimensioning, indignations, longstanding, nonbreedings, nonbuildings, noncorroding, nondeforming, nondemanding, nondepleting, nonoxidizing, nonproducing, recondensing.
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