cherishing
noun, verb
cherishing is a noun meaning “The act by which somebody or something is cherished” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-R-I-S-H-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cherishing is cherishings.
What does cherishing mean?
noun
- 1
The act by which somebody or something is cherished.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of cherish
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cherishing?
Cherishing has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cherishing
- cherishings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cherishing?
Cherishing appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 59,387th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).