Definitions for having
hav·ing

Wiktionary(2.57 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

1. having(Noun)

   Something owned; possession; goods; estate.

Webster Dictionary(2.80 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Having

   of Have

2. Having(noun)

   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. having

   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. Tristan Loraine:

   This is the first public acknowledgment by an airline of a problem which this industry, including my own airline, has spent decades denying. I congratulate EasyJet for having the vision and courage which no other airline had.

2. Trey Gowdy:

   An independent analysis of the private server Secretary Clinton used for the official conduct of U.S. government business is the best way to remove politics and personal consideration from the equation, having a neutral, third-party arbiter such as the State Department IG do a forensic analysis and document review is an eminently fair and reasonable means to determine what should be made public.

3. Matthew Schulman:

   Body parts are removed because of trauma and cancer, and there’s a whole field of reconstructive plastic surgery to rebuild these structures and restore normal function— the removal idea is something that no plastic surgeon is going to do, the danger with that is people are going to do what they want to do, and it forces them to go down a different route such as having these [procedures] done by non-medical professionals in settings that may not be appropriate.

4. The Munich prosecutor:

   Defendant Stadler is accused of having been aware of the manipulations since the end of September 2015 at the latest, but he did not prevent the sale of affected Audi and VW vehicles thereafter.

5. Assistant US Attorney Phillip Halpern:

   Today, in many ways, is a triumph for the press and shows the importance of having a free press.

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