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Definition: Swooning |
SwooningAdjective1. Weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "swooning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: SwooningSynonyms: faint (adj), light (adj), lightheaded (adj), light-headed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Swooning |
| English words defined with "swooning": Deliquium ♦ faint ♦ light, light-headed, Lipothymous. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "swooning": Swoon. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Between doing her hair in ponytails and swooning over the Backstreet Boys, it seems my daughter's been dabbling in witchcraft. (Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal; writing credit: Frédéric D'Onfs; Olivier Langlois) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Swooning the Swooners (1945) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | His soul was swooning into some new world, fantastic, dim, uncertain as under sea, traversed by cloudy shapes and beings. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Swooning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Swooning" is used about 11 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) | 63.64% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
club fan hotohori swooning | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "swooning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | schwindend (dwindling, evanescent, waning), in Ohnmacht fallend. (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | עלוף (fainting). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | lankadt (droopy, faint, languid, languorous, slack, swooned, wearied, withered), ernyedt (flabby, flaccid, floppy, languid, lax, sloppy, swooned, to feel slack), elhaló (decaying, faint), elaléló, alélt (stunned, swooned), ájult (insensible, swooned). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | '' (fainting). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | そっとう (fainting). (various references) | ||||
Manx | tuittym neealloo, tuittym neeal (swoon). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ooningsway | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Avestan | 200-600 | frazâbaodhanghem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "swooning": swooningly. (additional references) | |
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"Swooning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sooning, sworning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "swooning" (pronounced swuw"ning) |
| 4 | -uw" n i ng | ballooning, cartooning, cocooning, crooning, impugning, pruning, tuning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, 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, donning, 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, 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, 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, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-n-o-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: noosing, snowing. | |
-2 letters: gonion, isogon, nosing, onions, owning, sowing, wooing. | |
-3 letters: goons, gowns, noons, onion, owing, swing, swoon, wings, winos. | |
-4 letters: gins, goon, goos, gown, inns, ions, nogs, noon, nows, owns, sign, sing, snog, snow, song, soon, sown, swig, wigs, wing, wino, wins, wogs, wons, woos. | |
-5 letters: gin, goo, gos, inn, ins, ion, nog, noo. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-n-o-o-s-w" | |
+2 letters: swooningly. | |
+3 letters: brownnosing, snowplowing, snowshoeing, wrongdoings. | |
+4 letters: snowboarding, snowmobiling. | |
+5 letters: hornswoggling, snowboardings, snowmobilings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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