DOINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doings mean? 

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

1. manner of acting or controlling yourself

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Manner of acting or controlling yourself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

behavior; behaviour; conduct; doings

Hypernyms ("doings" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "doings"):

aggression (deliberately unfriendly behavior)

bohemianism (conduct characteristic of a bohemian)

dirty pool (conduct that is unfair or unethical or unsportsmanlike)

dirty tricks (underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent)

discourtesy; offence; offense; offensive activity (a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others)

easiness (the quality of being easy in behavior or style)

the way of the world; the ways of the world (the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen)

 Context examples 

“But, sir,” urged Alleyne, who was white to the lips at these bloody doings, “he hath not yet come to trial.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No record of the doings of Mr. Sherlock Holmes would be complete which did not include some account of this very unusual affair.

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

His moods have so followed the doings of the Count, that the coming destruction of the monster may be carried to him in some subtle way.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He tells stories of his own doings which are so grotesque that they can only be explained by the madness which runs in his blood.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Fine doings in a person's own house!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You are at liberty to preserve your secret, but you must promise me that there shall be no more nightly visits, no more doings which are kept from my knowledge.

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

She became a subscriber; amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of books!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Children were enticed in as models, till their incoherent accounts of her mysterious doings caused Miss Amy to be regarded in the light of a young ogress.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I could never hope to equal my own doings at Randalls.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He accepted it as he accepted all the unaccountable doings and manifestations of the gods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)