Innings

Quick meaning: Innings is a noun meaning A comparable period of play in croquet or roque.

Meaning

A comparable period of play in croquet or roque.

More Meanings

1. (British) The time during which any party is in possession of power, or enjoying good luck, etc.; a turn of any kind.
2. (British, euphemistic) A person's lifespan.
3. plural of inning
4. (cricket) One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.

Example Sentences

Like father, like son. Sixty-eight. Not such a bad innings, really, when the old man was gone at fifty-three.

My mother-in-law died at 89 years of age, while sad and as you might expect, we used the phrase “she had a good innings”.

You can only say, she had a good innings, so many times. I suppose seventy nine isn't so bad. It's a damn sight more than I can expect.

He was the first of my grandparents to die but none of them made it much past seventy, although that was very much looked on as 'a decent innings' in early-seventies England.

Word Forms

• inningses

Antonyms for innings

Common opposites include relax, loosen.

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