paintings
SayPAYN-tingz/ˈpeɪntɪŋz/
- 1Plural of painting.
The gallery's newest paintings drew large crowds all weekend.
Restorers cleaned the centuries-old paintings before the exhibition opened.
Note
Only one meaning of painting can be counted, and this plural belongs to it: the finished works, as in a gallery's paintings. The activity of applying paint and the art form itself are uncountable, so her paintings means canvases, never sessions at the easel. The -ing spelling is shared with the gerund of paint, but a gerund takes no plural; the -s marks the noun.
paintings is a form of painting
painting, noun: An illustration or work of art made using paint. Full entry
- Forms
- paintingpaintings plural
- Spelling
- painting → paintings: add -s
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