goings-on en · NOUN
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) Occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.
The_Donald wasn’t a place to debate the presidential election, or discuss the latest goings-on with their preferred candidate. “What I’m interested in is letting Donald Trump supporters speak among themselves,” a moderator of the subreddit told me in early 2016.
2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2021:Phoenix's finest watch the goings-on with jaws agape. Machines on thick metal legs with big jangling teeth.
1996 July, Bruce Sterling, “Is Phoenix Burning”, in Wired, →ISSN:Enkidu is appalled at such goings-on and rises immediately to go to Uruk.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:She sent a long letter detailing all the recent goings-on in her life.
Forms
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| going-ons | alternative | lexicographic |
Synonyms
happening · proceeding · instance · episode · proceeding · incident · befalling · hap · event · affair · occasion · occurrence · goings-on · incident
Translations (4)
es tejemanejes (Translations) · pl dzieje (Translations) · yi מעשׂים (Translations) · yi געשעענישן (Translations)