smiling
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Adjective[edit]
smiling (comparative more smiling, superlative most smiling)
- That smiles or has a smile.
- smiling children
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
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Translations[edit]
that smiles or has a smile
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Noun[edit]
smiling (countable and uncountable, plural smilings)
- The action of the verb to smile.
- Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.
- 1837, Harriet Catharine Grew, Memorials of a Young Christian:
- We […] shall ascend to our Father's home of holiness, to enjoy perpetually the smilings of his face […]
Verb[edit]
smiling
- present participle and gerund of smile
- They were smiling at the children.
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