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Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.
Tibor Fischer

Meaning of "hankering" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HANKERING

hankering  [ˈhæŋkərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HANKERING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hankering is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HANKERING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hankering in the English dictionary

The definition of hankering in the dictionary is a desire or yearning.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HANKERING


all-conquering
ˌɔːlˈkɒŋkərɪŋ
bearing
ˈbɛərɪŋ
bickering
ˈbɪkərɪŋ
catering
ˈkeɪtərɪŋ
conquering
ˈkɒŋkərɪŋ
considering
kənˈsɪdərɪŋ
covering
ˈkʌvərɪŋ
during
ˈdjʊərɪŋ
engineering
ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ
flickering
ˈflɪkərɪŋ
gathering
ˈɡæðərɪŋ
hearing
ˈhɪərɪŋ
lacquering
ˈlækərɪŋ
manufacturing
ˌmænjʊˈfæktʃərɪŋ
measuring
ˈmɛʒərɪŋ
monitoring
ˈmɒnɪtərɪŋ
offering
ˈɒfərɪŋ
Pickering
ˈpɪkərɪŋ
tinkering
ˈtɪŋkərɪŋ
wearing
ˈwɛərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HANKERING

hanging wall
hanging wardrobe
hangman
hangmen
hangnail
hangover
hangry
hangtag
Hanguk
hangul
Hangzhou
Hania
haniwa
hank
hanker
hankerer
Hankow
Hanks
hanky
hanky-panky

WORDS THAT END LIKE HANKERING

bring
civil engineering
electrical engineering
empowering
fingering
flattering
flowering
hovering
lettering
lowering
mechanical engineering
pioneering
power steering
recovering
rendering
scattering
steering
suffering
wandering
watering
wondering

Synonyms and antonyms of hankering in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HANKERING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hankering» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hankering
ache · craving · desire · hope · hunger · itch · longing · thirst · urge · wish · yearning · yen

Translation of «hankering» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HANKERING

Find out the translation of hankering to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hankering from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hankering» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

热衷
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

anhelo
570 millions of speakers

English

hankering
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उत्कंठा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الاشتياق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

жажда
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anseio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তীব্র লালসা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nostalgie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hankering
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sehnsucht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

切望
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

열망
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hankering
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự khao khát
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெரிதும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उत्सुकता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hasret
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

brama
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tęsknota
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спрага
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hankering
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hunkering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

önskan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hankering
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hankering

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HANKERING»

The term «hankering» is regularly used and occupies the 80.655 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HANKERING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hankering

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9 QUOTES WITH «HANKERING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hankering.
1
Eddy Arnold
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
2
Julie Burchill
People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
3
Glen Duncan
I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.
4
Guy Fieri
There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot.
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Tibor Fischer
Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.
6
Mary Garden
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.
7
Richard K. Morgan
I'd always had a hankering to write some old-school sword and sorcery. And there certainly are advantages to that particular form - for one thing, you're able to go all-out on the imaginative front, with a lot less concern for the usual unities of time and space and character.
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Nick Park
As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.
9
Adam Weishaupt
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANKERING»

Discover the use of hankering in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hankering and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hankering: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.ndash;Chris Evert LloydConcentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training.
‎2008
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An Inconvenient Hankering
Sam and Hank met as high school juniors and hit it off almost immediately.
Sienna Bishop, 2009
3
Elements of Modern Materialism: Inculcating the Idea of a ...
Those organic passions which give rise to instinctive actions we will, for the present, call hankerings for something — not hankerings for any particular thing which the young animal has any idea of before he have seen it — but a hankering for ...
Charles Knowlton, 1829
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Modern Philosophies of Human Nature: Their Emergence from ...
Concern, in Heidegger's terminology, actually belongs to falling.14 'Care' on the other hand is a much more general phenomenon , which includes 'care' in the narrow sense and 'solicitude', as well as 'willing', 'hankering', 'addiction' and ...
Peter E. Langford, 1986
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Even after all these years, I still hanker for a motorbike. hankering /'haen.k'r.irj/ © / -ka-, noun [C] a strong wish: Don t you ever have a hankering for a different lifestyle? hanky /'ha?n.ki, noun [C] (also hankie) informal a handkerchief (= square ...
‎2008
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Hunga Dunga
Whenever somebody gets a hankering to..." Richard stopped him in his tracks. " Hankering? Hankering? God Duck, you sound like you're out in the boonies already!" Duck threw Richard a few daggers and then shook him off. "As I was saying, ...
Phil Polizatto, 2008
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Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The "Lutheran" Paul and ...
Ench. 14.50), they are by no means delivered from the hankering for sin (or " concupiscence") that oppresses human nature since the fall (Depecc. mer. 1.39. 70). As when a fever disappears, a patient still needs to recover strength; or as, when ...
Stephen Westerholm, 2004
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Birkat HaMinim: Jews and Christians in Conflict in the ...
Rabbi Judah ben Habiba said: Because it makes reference to five things — the precept of fringes, the exodus from Egypt, the yoke of the commandments, [a warning against] the opinions of the Minim, and the hankering after sin and the ...
Yaakov Y. Teppler, 2007
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Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis
The noblest happiness, according to early Buddhism, is to be achieved through the control of all hankering for the world (of sense pleasures), all covering of its false values, together with the dejection to which their impermanence and lack of  ...
David J. Kalupahana, 1976
10
Rodent
They had a hankering for snakes and were eager to pick some of them up and let them crawl around in their paws. The two rodents had stopped for the night to get some sleep. Hrothgar had gone out to get some cheese and had never come ...
Daniel S. Knowles, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HANKERING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hankering is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rob Kardashian: Hankering to Beat Up Scott Disick For Cheating on …
We haven't heard much from Rob Kardashian in the better part of a year, but sources say he is keeping close tabs on the Scott Disick drama. «The Hollywood Gossip, Jul 15»
2
Former Turbos midfielder Frankie Bryant still has rep rugby …
After setting up his Gravitate 24 gym at Roslyn in February, he still has a hankering to play rep rugby. He played 80 matches for Manawatu ... «Manawatu Standard, Jul 15»
3
Temporary Grexit may still become a serious option - Financial Review
... to be rid of the Greek problem, the US desire to minimise the risk of another financial crisis, and the obvious Greek hankering for an easy way ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
4
Forget Spago; Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie grub at Subway - NY Daily …
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had a hankering for some hoagies over the weekend. The Hollywood power couple popped into a Subway ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
5
Your Body: Chocolate and Its Health Benefits | MyCentralOregon.com
But if you're still hankering for that chocolate — in moderation of course — it just might be your healthy indulgence. Copyright © 2015, ABC ... «myCentralOregon.com, Jul 15»
6
Nintendo asks GitHub to make Javascript-based Game Boy …
If you're hankering to play old games via an emulator of some sort, the Internet Archive remains (perhaps) the best option. Its cache of ... «Ars Technica UK, Jul 15»
7
What Local Authors Are Reading This Summer - Arts Desk
I recently reread The Bostonians, which has me hankering for more Henry James. I love James (especially Washington Square and The Portrait ... «Washington City Paper, Jul 15»
8
Prominent Christians: Pope's Climate Change Stance Harms Not …
“The encyclical is coloured too much by a hankering for a past world, prior to the Industrial Revolution, which is assumed to have been ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
9
Keeping the mayo and the comfort in an updated chicken salad …
So when I'm hankering for a little comfort in summer, this is the version I make now. OnlineAthens.com aims to foster constructive, respectful ... «Online Athens, Jul 15»
10
Two old men against the grain | Arab News
... Republican Party throws up from among the roster of reprobates hankering for its presidential candidacy, be it Marco Rubio or Donald Trump. «Arab News, Jul 15»

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