Definitions for having
hav·ing

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1. having(Noun)

   Something owned; possession; goods; estate.

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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. Frank Gehrke:

   We are looking at probably not having the road open until maybe mid-July.

2. Lord Thomson of Fleet:

   Like having your own licence to print money.

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. Marco Rubio:

   He's learning how to spell, but he's flying around on 'Hair Force One' and tweeting. So here's the one tweet he put out. He put out a picture of having makeup put on me at the debate. Which is amazing to me that the guy with the worst spray tan in America is attacking me for putting on makeup. Donald Trump likes to sue people. He should sue whoever did that to his face with that.

5. Shelley Clark:

   Having older siblings help with child care is very common in most low-income settings. Although older brothers may also help with child care, the burden of child care seems to be more detrimental for older sisters, we find that female adolescents living in the household are twice as likely to be attending high school if the mother uses day care than if she does not use day care.

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