TEETHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teething mean? 

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

1. the eruption through the gums of baby teeth

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEETHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The eruption through the gums of baby teeth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

dentition; odontiasis; teething

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

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

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

precocious dentition (teething at an earlier age than expected)

Derivation:

teethe (grow teeth; cut the baby teeth)

 Context examples 

But by-and-by, when the teething worry was over and the idols went to sleep at proper hours, leaving Mamma time to rest, she began to miss John, and find her workbasket dull company, when he was not sitting opposite in his old dressing gown, comfortably scorching his slippers on the fender.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)