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yearning

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈjɝnɪŋ/
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/ˈjɝnɪŋ/ · /ˈjɜːnɪŋ/

Definition of yearning

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A wistful or melancholy longing.
    “She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.”
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noun

  1. A wistful or melancholy longing.
    “She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.”
  2. (Scotland, archaic, countable, uncountable)Rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese).
    “Mrs. MacClarty then took down a bottle of rennet, or yearning, as she called it.”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of yearn
    “I've got this burning, yearning, yearning / Feeling inside me / Ooh, deep inside me / And it hurts so bad”

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Etymology

From Middle English yerning, from Old English ġierning, ġierninge. Equivalent to the gerund (yearn + -ing). yearn comes from Proto-West Germanic *girnijan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijaną, from *gernaz (“eager, willing”) + *-janą, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to yearn for”). By surface analysis, yearn + -ing.

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