fighting
The act or process of contendingThe act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
» The Government has collapsed, but the street fightings continue.
zipangu · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
борьба́borʹbá
(countable, uncountable)A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
- the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
Examples
1 sentencesThe Government has collapsed, but the street fightings continue.
Translations
1 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English fightyng, fightynge, fiȝtinge, feȝtyng, from Old English fihtung (“figFrom Middle English fightyng, fightynge, fiȝtinge, feȝtyng, from Old English fihtung (“fighting”), equivalent to fight + -ing.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: fightingsSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
30 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.