Meaning

2 senses
  1. Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.

    Go and collect some kindling.

    Anmachholz, Anzündholz, Kleinholz

    растопкаrastopka

  2. The act by which something is kindled.

    the act of setting something on fire

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire:

Origin

From kindle + -ing.

From kindle + -ing.

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Forms

plural: kindlings
Singularkindling
Pluralkindlings

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedkindle

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kindling — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto