banting

Other forms of banting

plural

bantings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about banting

What does banting mean?

banting means "Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in banting?

banting has 2 syllables: ban-ting. The stress falls on "ban".

What is another word for banting?

Close synonyms include F. G. Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting, banteng, tsine, Bos banteng. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is banting a common word?

banting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.