INNINGS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)