smoking

1. 1.

   emitting smoke in great volume

   “a smoking fireplace”

   Similarsmoky

Other forms of smoking

plural

smokings·

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 smoking

What does smoking mean?

smoking means "the act of smoking tobacco or other substances". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smoking?

smoking has 2 syllables: smo-king. The stress falls on "smo". In IPA it is /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/.

What is another word for smoking?

Close synonyms include smoke, smoke. 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 smoking a common word?

smoking is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.