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say it: WAHYN-ding
winding is an adjective and noun meaning "marked by repeated turns and bends". It carries 3 recorded senses.
marked by repeated turns and bends
“a tortuous road up the mountain”
“winding roads are full of surprises”
“had to steer the car down a twisty track”
of a path e.g.
“meandering streams”
“rambling forest paths”
“the river followed its wandering course”
“a winding country road”
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 winding 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.