returning
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈtɜːnɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈtɝnɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
- Hyphenation: re‧turn‧ing
Verb edit
returning
- present participle and gerund of return
Noun edit
returning (plural returnings)
- The act of one who returns; a coming back.
- 2012, Michael Phillips, Land of the Brave and the Free, page 221:
- It was a time of returnings. Soldiers everywhere returned home to try to piece together the broken fragments of shattered lives.