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playing

nounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • //ˈpleɪ.ɪŋ//

An occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played.

noun

  1. 1

    An occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played.

    […] the Nielsen figures show that average viewership across all playings fell by only 40 percent and that total viewership of the entire season’s episodes fell by only 20 percent.

Etymology

From Middle English playing; equivalent to play + -ing.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of playpresent participle and gerund of play

Forms

plural
playings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).