Associations to the word «Golding»

Wiktionary

GOLDING, proper noun. A surname​.
GOLDING, noun. (obsolete) A gold coin.
GOLDING, noun. (obsolete) A kind of apple; a goldling.
GOLDING, noun. (UK) (North Midlands dialects) The corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum).
GOLDING, noun. (in the Kentish dialect) The ladybird (familia Coccinellidae).
GOLDING, noun. A kind of red hop, a sub-variety of the Canterbury hop.
GOLDING, verb. Present participle of gold

Dictionary definition

GOLDING, noun. English novelist (1911-1993).

Wise words

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