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say it: PLAN-ting
planting is a noun meaning "the act of fixing firmly in place". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of fixing firmly in place
“he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway”
a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area
“the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner”
putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow
“the planting of corn is hard work”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for planting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.