smiling

Etymology

adj

  1. That smiles or has a smile.
    smiling children

noun

  1. The action of the verb to smile.
    Smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning.
    We […] shall ascend to our Father's home of holiness, to enjoy perpetually the smilings of his face […] 1837, Harriet Catharine Grew, Memorials of a Young Christian

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of smile
    They were smiling at the children.

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