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INNINGS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The batting turn of a cricket player or team
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("innings" is a kind of...):
play; turn ((game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "innings"):
follow-on (an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings)
Holonyms ("innings" is a part of...):
cricket (a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs)
