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You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
Bernadine Dohrn

Meaning of "imaginings" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMAGININGS

imaginings  [ɪˈmædʒɪnɪŋz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMAGININGS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Imaginings 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 IMAGININGS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of imaginings in the English dictionary

The definition of imaginings in the dictionary is things you imagine may take place or may have taken place.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMAGININGS


amornings
əˈmɔːnɪŋz
blazonings
ˈbleɪzənɪŋz
communings
kəˈmjuːnɪŋz
complainings
kəmˈpleɪnɪŋz
earnings
ˈɜːnɪŋz
evenings
ˈiːvnɪŋz
finings
ˈfaɪnɪŋz
gainings
ˈɡeɪnɪŋz
gleanings
ˈɡliːnɪŋz
innings
ˈɪnɪŋz
mornings
ˈmɔːnɪŋz
Munnings
ˈmʌnɪŋz
petitionings
pəˈtɪʃənɪŋz
pyonings
ˈpaɪəˌnɪŋz
restrainings
rɪˈstreɪnɪŋz
screenings
ˈskriːnɪŋz
underpinnings
ˈʌndəˌpɪnɪŋz
winnings
ˈwɪnɪŋz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMAGININGS

imaginable
imaginably
imaginal
imaginarily
imaginariness
imaginary
imaginary number
imaginary part
imagination
imaginational
imaginative
imaginatively
imaginativeness
imagine
imaginer
imagines
imaging
imagism
imagist
imagistic

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMAGININGS

attachment of earnings
beginnings
export earnings
feelings
findings
fittings
immoral earnings
invisible earnings
leggings
proceedings
rankings
ratings
retained earnings
savings
share earnings
Springs
strings
things
wings
Writings

Synonyms and antonyms of imaginings in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «imaginings» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMAGININGS

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

Translator English - Chinese

想象
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imaginaciones
570 millions of speakers

English

imaginings
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

imaginings
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تصورات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

воображение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imaginações
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কল্পনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

imaginations
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Imaginasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vorstellungen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

想像
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상상
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Imaginings
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tưởng tượng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கற்பனைகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कल्पना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hayaller
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fantasie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyobrażenia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

уява
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

închipuiri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φαντασιώσεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbeeldingsvlugte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inbillningar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forestillinger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of imaginings

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMAGININGS»

The term «imaginings» is regularly used and occupies the 99.624 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMAGININGS» OVER TIME

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

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5 QUOTES WITH «IMAGININGS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word imaginings.
1
Bernadine Dohrn
You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
2
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
3
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
4
Philip Roth
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
5
Dodie Smith
I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMAGININGS»

Discover the use of imaginings in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to imaginings and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hypochondria: Woeful Imaginings
Writing with grace, humor, and an expert's eye for revealing detail, Susan Baur illuminates the processes by which hypochondriacs come to adopt and maintain illness as a way of life.
Susan Baur, 1989
2
Postcolonial Imaginings: Fictions of a New World Order
It constitutes a major new engagement between the 'postcolonial' and a conception of the literary that is richly innovative in its deployment of psychoanalytic, deconstructive, and other approaches to the text.
David Punter, 2000
3
Bad Imaginings
`Caroline Adderson's imaginings are about as far from bad as imaginings can get. The stories in her debut collection are powerfully conceived, subtly constructed, and amazingly diverse in tone.
Caroline Adderson, 1993
4
Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present
Collective Imaginings shows us how the work of the seventeenth-century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza is still relevant today. Gatens and Lloyd discuss Spinoza's work from the perspective of a concern with contemporary issues of freedom ...
Associate Professor of Philosophy Moira Gatens, Moira Gatens, Emeritus Professor in Philosophy Genevieve Lloyd, 2002
5
Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction
Assembled by bestselling author/anthologist Keith R.A. DeCandido, this book will take you on a journey through ten writers' wildest imaginings.
Keith R. A. DeCandido, 2003
6
Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill's The History of British ...
This book re-examines British attitudes to India in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Javed Majeed, 1992
7
Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives ...
Hemispheric Imaginings demonstrates that North Americans conceived and developed the Monroe Doctrine in relation to transatlantic literary narratives.
Gretchen Murphy, 2005
8
Imaginings: Selected Stories
IMAGININGS is a collection of stories stimulated by Mr. Warren's varied career.
Dean Warren, 2012
9
Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse
The variety of presentations and roles that imaginings of time play in narrative framing techniques is scrutinized in order to determine why they should have such predominance. Is there an increased consciousness in the artistic potential for ...
Dr Karen Elaine Smyth, 2013
10
Future Imaginings: Sexualities and Genders in the New Millennium
Future Imaginings brings together essays by leading Australian scholars from a range of disciplines, who investigate, interrogate and develop new ways of thinking about gender.
Delys Bird, Wendy Were, Terri-Ann White, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMAGININGS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term imaginings is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Veruca Salt is ready for its second act : Entertainment
... was much more than that, but we had become the worst imaginings of what we could have become, and that was really hard for us to digest.”. «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
2
Reagan, Nixon and Lessons for Obama's Iran Deal - Washington …
Finally, bringing China out of isolation was geopolitically sound, and it lifted Chinese living standards beyond anyone's imaginings. But internal ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
'Don Quixote' Gets a 3D-Printed Horse For Its 400th Birthday | The …
... reborn—through a technology beyond Don Quixote's wildest imaginings. Mounted on a horseshoe-shaped stand with a quoted inscription, ... «The Creators Project, Jul 15»
4
Gov. Markell vetoes student testing opt-out bill
Kowalko takes issue with the rationale Markell offered for his decision – calling it “disingenuous and inflammatory imaginings” that ... «Delaware First Media, Jul 15»
5
allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: The Beatles Immortalised in Harare
... awarded Best Producer of An Intimate Musical Event by StageSceneLA.com," said, one of the organisers Vanisha Ramjee of Wild Imaginings ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
6
Your back is always covered, whether you know it or not - parispi.net …
The wind blows through the trees and grass only to add to his wild imaginings, but he remains sitting on the stump, stoic as only one who is ... «Paris Post Intelligencer, Jul 15»
7
Arcangelo at the Wigmore Hall | The Times
Here was John Blow's An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell and Couperin's imaginings of another late departed, Corelli, settling in on ... «The Times, Jul 15»
8
Heroes Reborn: After The Cheerleader... - MOARGeek
The frustrated… well, the short version is because in a way this is just another in a long line of reboots, re-imaginings, and re-hashes that ... «MOARGeek, Jul 15»
9
ComicCon Trailers: Winners & Losers – The National Student
Evil Dead seems to be holding a solitary middle-finger up towards the hordes of remakes and re-imaginings that fans have taken issues with, ... «The National Student, Jul 15»
10
Backstreet Boys And NSYNC Are Making A Movie | Look
We've got all of the imaginings of a Shaun Of The Dead x Everybody (Backstreets Back) music video mash up. And there's a twist. It's set in an ... «LOOK, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Imaginings [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/imaginings>. May 2024 ».
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