"smiling" meaning in English

See smiling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-smiling.ogg [US] Forms: more smiling [comparative], most smiling [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ Head templates: {{en-adj}} smiling (comparative more smiling, superlative most smiling)
  1. That smiles or has a smile. Derived forms: smiling assassin, smilingly Translations (that smiles or has a smile): усмихнат (usmihnat) (Bulgarian), somrient (Catalan), souriant (French), risoño (Galician), riseiro (Galician), cacarelo (Galician), lächelnd (German), mosolygó (Hungarian), smaidīgs (Latvian), smaidošs (Latvian), خندان (xandân) (Persian), uśmiechnięty (Polish), sorridente (Portuguese), risonho (Portuguese), sonriente (Spanish), హసితము (hasitamu) (Telugu)
    Sense id: en-smiling-en-adj-PCA46VGN

Noun

IPA: /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-smiling.ogg [US] Forms: smilings [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} smiling (countable and uncountable, plural smilings)
  1. The action of the verb to smile. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-smiling-en-noun--Vixa8wq

Verb

IPA: /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-smiling.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} smiling
  1. present participle and gerund of smile Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: smile
    Sense id: en-smiling-en-verb-FLYmoyAC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 4 83

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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