Definitions for having
hav·ing

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1. havingnoun

   Something owned; possession; goods; estate.

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1. Having

   of Have

2. Havingnoun

   possession; goods; estate

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1. Having

   Having is the third album by the American rock band Trespassers William. It was released on 28 February 2006 on Nettwerk Records.

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1. havingverb

   Verb form of the word have.

   We were having dinner when we got the good news, the wedding date had been changed to a few months earlier.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 1, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'having' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #254

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'having' in Written Corpus Frequency: #246

How to pronounce having?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say having in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of having in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of having in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of having in a Sentence

1. Émile Durkheim:

   The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. But the man who has always pinned all his hopes on the future and lived with his eyes fixed upon it, has nothing in the past as a comfort against the present's afflictions, for the past was nothing to him but a series of hastily experienced stages. What blinded him to himself was his expectation always to find further on the happiness he had so far missed. Now he is stopped in his tracks; from now on nothing remains behind or ahead of him to fix his gaze upon.

2. Howard Ross:

   This is normal human behavior, we can no more stop having bias than we can stop breathing.

3. Gilda Radner:

   I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

4. Ferd Hoefner:

   If you put more emphasis on things that relate to organic produce or new farmers or renewable energy on farms, then there might be more public support for a bill that otherwise, in broad strokes, the general public things of as having big subsidies for big farms.

5. England Evergreen Catriona Matthew:

   Graham doesn't get to come out often now... so it's just great having him here, he caddied for 16, 17 years so we are very used to the way each of us react on the course.

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