"smiling" meaning in English

See smiling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-smiling.ogg 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 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Telugu translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 18 20 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 54 22 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 61 19 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 73 13 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 60 20 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 60 20 21 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 60 18 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 60 20 21 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 67 17 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 58 20 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 60 19 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 60 19 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 50 23 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 61 19 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 72 13 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Telugu translations: 57 21 22

Noun

IPA: /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/ Audio: en-us-smiling.ogg 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
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

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.