Meaning of Wilding | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A wild apple or apple tree.
2. A surname.
3. Any of a series of British stamps that have an image of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.
4. A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets.
   US, countable, uncountable
5. Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.

Equivalents

Examples

“These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles.”

“Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]”

“Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.”

“The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.”

CEFR level