LEAVINGS

Definitions: LEAVINGS

LEAVINGS

Noun plural

1. Refuse; offal.

2. Things left; remnants; relics.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LEAVINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inutility	Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.
Remainder	Noun: remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs; (dirt); refuse; (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump; alluvium.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: LEAVINGS

English words defined with "LEAVINGS": Lesses, Lopping. (references)

Specialty definitions using "LEAVINGS": WILDLIFE CONTROL AGENT. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Leavings (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Swift	When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"LEAVINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LEAVINGS" is used about 10 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
Noun (plural)	100%	10	111,207

Language		Translations for "LEAVINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të mbetura nga dreka (leftovers), të lëna (leftovers), mbeturina (chaff, char, cheese-parings, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, odds and ends, pickings, recrement, refuse, relics, Reliquiae, remains, rubbish, shorts, spoilage, stamping, survival, tailings, waste, wrack). (various references)

Arabic		‏رواسب (deposit, dregs, foot, grout, lees, magma, precipitate, residue, sediment, settlings, tartar). (various references)

Bulgarian		останки (bones, leftovers, refuse, remainder, remains, scrapings, scraps, waste), отпадъци (carrion, dregs, dross, garbage, husks, junk, litter, offal, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, scobs, scrapings, stock, throw out, throwaway, trash, waste, write-offs). (various references)

Czech		zbytky (detritus, leftovers, oddments, odds and ends, offal, remains, rummage). (various references)

Dutch		uitschot (broke, cull, discard, faulty goods, garbage, inferior product, low grade product, offcut, off-specification batches, refuse, refuse parts, reject, rejects, rubbish, scrap, sixths, waste, waster), rommel (chaos, clippings, confusion, cuttings, debris, disorder, garbage, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, tangle, waste, windfall), afval (apostasy, broke, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, discard, fagot iron, garbage, metal scrap, offal, offcut, parings, refuse, refuse parts, rejects, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, scrap, sixths, steel scrap, trash, waste, windfall). (various references)

Esperanto		forĵetindaĵo (garbage, refuse, rubbish, waste). (various references)

Finnish		ruoanjätteet (scraps), jätteet (garbage, offal, refuse, rubbish, table scraps). (various references)

French		restes (left overs). (various references)

German		Vererbungen, Reste (carryovers, leftovers, oddments, odds and ends, pickings, remainders, remains, remnants, residuals, residues, ruins, scrapings, scraps, splits). (various references)

Greek		εναπολείμματα (pickings, remains), απομεινάρια (leftover, odds and ends, remains, the remnants). (various references)

Hungarian		maradékok (bits and pieces, garblings, oddments, remnants and oddments). (various references)

Italian		resti (ashes, remains), residui (attle, burrow, garbage, refuse, residual product, residue, residue of combustion, residues, rubbish, waste). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		余り物 (remains, remnant, surplus), 使い残り (odds and ends, remainder, remnant), 使い残し (odds and ends, remainder, remnant). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		つかいの�"り (odds and ends, remainder, remnant), つかいの�"し (odds and ends, remainder, remnant), あまりもの (remains, remnant, surplus). (various references)

Manx		brooillagh (crumbs, fragments of food, remains). (various references)

Pig Latin		eavingslay

Portuguese		sobras (garbage, oddments, overissue, pickle, remainders, scraps, unsold copies), restos (debris, detritus, garbage, Lees, offscourings, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, relict, reliquiae, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, scraps, survival, waste), resíduos (combings, garbage, offal, refuse, residue, residue of combustion, sediment, tailing, waste), partida (departure, farewell dinner, flit, game, going, lark, leave, match, parcel, parting, party, passing, prank, quiz, sailing, sale lot, side, start, take off), borras (bottoms, empyrean, lees, sediment), bazófia (boasting, bragging, leftwards, swagger, vaunt). (various references)

Romanian		resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, tailings, wreck), rebuturi (rejection, rubbish, throw out, waste), rãmãşiţe (debris, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, remains, riff raff, tailings). (various references)

Russian		остатки (oddments, odds and ends, pickings, refuse, remains, rinse, tailings, waifs and strays). (various references)

Scottish		fuighleach (refuse, remains). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ostaci (dreg, leftovers, odd-come-shorts, oddments, remainders, remains). (various references)

Spanish		dejamientos. (various references)

Swedish		lämningar (remnants), matrester (left overs), avfall (apostasy, backsliding, chips, cutting, cuttings, defection, dross, falling away, garbage, litter, odd-come-short, offal, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, waste). (various references)

Turkish		kalanlar (leftovers, remains), artanlar (leftovers), artıklar (leftovers, oddments, remains), çöp (brushing, chip, crud, discard, dregs, garbage, junk, litter, mullock, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, straw, trash, waste). (various references)

Ukranian		рештки (ashes, candle-end, odd-come-short, refuse, scraps), залишки (candle-end, odd-come-short, oddments). (various references)

Welsh		sba+r (extra, spare), atbor (remnants, scraps). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	reliquum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"LEAVINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leakings, leasings. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "LEAVINGS" (pronounced lē"vingz)
4	-v i ng z	carvings, cravings, engravings, livings, misgivings, savings, servings, shavings.
3	-i ng z	bearings, beatings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earrings, earthlings, endings, etchings, evenings, everlastings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, listings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meanings, meetings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, poisonings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seatings, seedlings, settings, shadings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, whitings, winnings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: sleaving.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-s-v"
	-1 letter: alevins, glaives, leasing, leaving, linages, salving, sealing, slaving, valines, vealing.
	-2 letters: alevin, algins, aliens, aligns, alines, alvine, angels, angles, anvils, easing, elains, ganevs, gavels, genial, givens, glaive, gleans, ingles, lasing, laving, levins, lianes, liangs, ligans, ligase, linage, lingas, livens, naives, navels, navies, saline, savine, saving, signal, silage, silane, silvae, silvan, single, snivel.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-s-v"
	+1 letter: enslaving, galvanise, ravelings, shaveling, slavering.
	+2 letters: evangelism, evangelist, galvanised, galvanises, galvanizes, gavelkinds, leavenings, lifesaving, ravellings, shavelings, starveling, vigilances, vigilantes, villenages.
	+3 letters: eigenvalues, evangelisms, evangelists, evangelizes, everlasting, galvanizers, invigilates, levigations, lifesavings, lovemakings, oversalting, starvelings, vainglories.
	+4 letters: convalescing, evangelicals, evangelistic, everlastings, revitalising, slaveholding, vesiculating.
	+5 letters: devastatingly, everlastingly, misevaluating, overslaughing, slaveholdings, televangelism, televangelist, volcanologies, vulcanologies.
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