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say it: RING-ing
ringing is a noun meaning "the sound of a bell ringing". It is pronounced /ˈɹɪŋɪŋ/ — RING-ing. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the sound of a bell ringing
“the distinctive ring of the church bell”
“the ringing of the telephone”
“the tintinnabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells”
the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
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 ringing 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.