innings
(noun) the batting turn of a cricket player or team
Source: WordNet® 3.1
innings (plural innings)
(cricket) One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.
(British) The time during which any party is in possession of power, or enjoying good luck, etc.; a turn of any kind.
(British, euphemistic) A person's lifespan.
In British English, innings is used for both singular and plural; inning is not heard (except in connection with baseball or softball).
innings
plural of inning
• sinning
Source: Wiktionary
In"ning, n. Etym: [AS. innung, fr. in in, prep. & adv.]
1. Ingathering; harvesting. [Obs.] Holland.
2. The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.
3. pl.
Definition: Lands recovered from the sea. Ainsworth.
Inn, n. Etym: [AS. in,inn, house, chamber, inn, from AS. in in; akin to Icel. inni house. See In.]
1. A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode. [Obs.] Chaucer. Therefore with me ye may take up your inn For this same night. Spenser.
2. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.
Note: As distinguished from a private boarding house, an inn is a house for the entertainment of all travelers of good conduct and means of payment,as guests for a brief period,not as lodgers or boarders by contract. The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn. W. Irving.
3. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn. [Eng.]
4. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns. Inns of chancery (Eng.), colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly by attorneys, solicitors, etc.
– Inns of court (Eng.), the four societies of "students and practicers of the law of England" which in London exercise the exclusive right of admitting persons to practice at the bar; also, the buildings in which the law students and barristers have their chambers. They are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn.
Inn, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inned; p. pr. & vb. n. Inning.]
Definition: To take lodging; to lodge. [R.] Addison.
Inn, v. t.
1. To house; to lodge. [Obs.] When he had brought them into his city And inned them, everich at his degree. Chaucer.
2. To get in; to in. See In, v. t.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 April 2025
(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups; “the smart set goes there”; “they were an angry lot”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
