Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

skyling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: skyling
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A being from the sky or heavens.

Example Sentences

"Our actor is either one whose ambitions lead him to hitch his wagon to a star and scorn all sublunary things, or one stolidly content to please — not the aristocratic groundlings, but the skylings."
"For the first time I realised with amazing clearness that the sky was no blue expanse overhead but an abyss . . . and that we live in that sky stuck to a speck, the earth, and ought really to be called skylings, not earthlings. Miserable skylings!"
"A Skyling suddenly swooped down and snatched Starz right off the ground and flew off."

Etymology

From sky + -ling.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: sky

Inflected Forms

skylings (plural)

Questions

What does skyling mean?: A being from the sky or heavens.
Where does skyling come from?: From sky + -ling.

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