INNINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does innings mean? 

• INNINGS (noun)
  The noun INNINGS has 1 sense:

1. the batting turn of a cricket player or team

  Familiarity information: INNINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INNINGS (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)

 Context examples 

Anyhow it was my innings that time, and I don’t ever wish to feel better pleased.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)