watering

Other forms of watering

plural

waterings·

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 watering

What does watering mean?

watering means "shedding tears". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watering?

watering has 3 syllables: wa-te-ring. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for watering?

Close synonyms include lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing. 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 watering a common word?

watering 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.