ironing

1. 1.

   garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed

   “there was a basketful of ironing to do”

   Broadergarmentwhite goods

   Narrowerflatwork
2. 2.

   the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles

   Broaderwork

Other forms of ironing

plural

ironings·

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 ironing

What does ironing mean?

ironing means "garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ironing?

ironing has 3 syllables: i-ro-ning. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪɚnɪŋ/.

Is ironing a common word?

ironing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.