eating

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈiːtɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tɪŋ/, [ˈi.ɾɪŋ]

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• (Northern England, Midlands, without the NG-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈiːtɪŋɡ/
• Hyphenation: eat‧ing
• Rhymes: -iːtɪŋ

Etymology 1

Verb

eating

1. present participle and gerund of eat

Adjective

eating (not comparable)

1. Bred to be eaten.

   eating chickens; eating quails

2. Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

   Wait! That's not an eating apple.

Derived terms

• eating apple

Translations

suitable to be eaten without cooking

• Finnish: ruoka- (fi)

Etymology 2

From Middle English etynge, from Old English eting.

Noun

eating (countable and uncountable, plural eatings)

1. The act of ingesting food.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 159:

     Arabs consider the eating of mushrooms as an aphrodisiac aid.

2. (informal, dialectal) Food; cooking, cuisine.

   I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating!

   These pears are good eating.

3. The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

Synonyms

• (ingesting food): dining, consuming, consumption

Derived terms

• eating disorder
• eating habit
• eating house
• eating irons
• eating psychopathology
• emotional eating
• fish-eating
• intuitive eating
• large leaf-eating ladybird
• miseating
• plant-eating
• sin eating
• snake-eating cobra
• social eating
• stress eating
• worm-eating warbler

Translations

the act of consuming food

• Arabic: أَكْل (ar) m (ʔakl)
• Bulgarian: хра́нене (bg) n (hránene)
• Chichewa: kudyá class 15
• Czech: jídlo (cs) n, jezení n
• Finnish: syöminen (fi), ruokailu (fi)
• German: Essen (de) n

  East Central German: Assn n

• Hebrew: אֲכִילָה (he)
• Hindi: भक्षण (hi) m (bhakṣaṇ)
• Hungarian: evés (hu)
• Indonesian: pemakanan
• Ingrian: söömiin
• Italian: mangiare (it)
• Japanese: 食べること (ja) (たべること, taberu koto)
• Kabyle: učči
• Korean: 먹기 (meokgi)
• Macedonian: јадење n (jadenje)
• Malay: pemakanan (ms)
• Ngarrindjeri: yayun
• Old English: ǣt m
• Polish: jedzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: consumível (pt)
• Russian: приём пи́щи m (prijóm píšči), приня́тие пи́щи n (prinjátije píšči)
• Swahili: kula (sw) class 15
• Telugu: తినుట (te) (tinuṭa)
• Zigula: kudya class 15

food, comestibles

• Belarusian: е́жа f (jéža)
• Bulgarian: храна́ (bg) f (hraná)
• Finnish: ruoka (fi)
• French: bouffe (fr) f, manger (fr) m
• Ingrian: rooka, söökki, toitto, toittu, söömiin
• Macedonian: лапачка f (lapačka)
• Portuguese: comestível (pt)
• Russian: еда́ (ru) f (jedá), пи́ща (ru) f (píšča)
• Ukrainian: ї́жа (uk) f (jíža)

Anagrams

• giante, ingate, tagine, tangie, teaing