passings
- 1Plural of passing.
The church bulletin noted the passings of three longtime members last month.
Frequent passings of heavy trucks rattled the windows of the old house.
Note
A plural that makes sense only when each passing is a separate event you could count. Every noun use of passing can be countable or uncountable, and the plural takes the countable side: individual deaths, separate movements past a point, several bills approved, a run of passes between players. When the general activity is meant, such as skill at passing props in juggling or the ability to pass as a member of another group, English keeps the singular.
passings is a form of passing
passing, noun: A softer way of referring to death or dying, or to the end of a person's life or of something. Full entry
- Forms
- passingpassings plural
- Spelling
- passing → passings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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