MINGLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mingling mean? 

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

1. the action of people mingling and coming into contact

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINGLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The action of people mingling and coming into contact

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties

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

social activity (activity considered appropriate on social occasions)

Derivation:

mingle (get involved or mixed-up with)

 Context examples 

Her purple riding-habit almost swept the ground, her veil streamed long on the breeze; mingling with its transparent folds, and gleaming through them, shone rich raven ringlets.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But, from the greater part of the broad valley interposed, a mist was rising like a sea, which, mingling with the darkness, made it seem as if the gathering waters would encompass them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Where any of these wanted fortunes, I would provide them with convenient lodges round my own estate, and have some of them always at my table; only mingling a few of the most valuable among you mortals, whom length of time would harden me to lose with little or no reluctance, and treat your posterity after the same manner; just as a man diverts himself with the annual succession of pinks and tulips in his garden, without regretting the loss of those which withered the preceding year.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A fortunate chance had recommended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh when the living of Hunsford was vacant; and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She had her arms around the Doctor's neck, and he leant his head down over her, mingling his grey hair with her dark brown tresses.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It revealed, too, a group near the mantelpiece: I had scarcely caught it, and scarcely become aware of a cheerful mingling of voices, amongst which I seemed to distinguish the tones of Adele, when the door closed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Oh, sure," agreed Wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office, mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity—except his wife, who moved close to Tom.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)