ringing

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsringtintinnabulation

   Broadersound

   Narrowerbell ringing
2. 2.

   the giving of a ring as a token of engagement

   Broaderbetrothal
3. 3.

   having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

   Synonymsplangencyresonancereverberancesonorousnesssonorityvibrancy

   Broadertimbre

Other forms of ringing

plural

ringings·

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 ringing

What does ringing mean?

ringing means "the sound of a bell ringing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ringing?

ringing has 2 syllables: rin-ging. The stress falls on "rin". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪŋɪŋ/.

What is another word for ringing?

Close synonyms include ring, tintinnabulation, plangency, resonance, reverberance. 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 ringing a common word?

ringing is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.