shooting – English noun declension

English noun forms of shooting

Noun: shooting
Singularshooting
Pluralshootings

Sample Sentences

  • Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
  • Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be. [2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5]
  • The Gun Violence Archive[…] defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people were killed or injured.
  • As of late March, the Gun Violence Archive has counted 130 mass shootings in the United States this year. [2023 March 28, Daniel Victor, “U.S. Mass Shootings in 2023: A Partial List”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023:]
  • Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. [2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5]
  • I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
  • the shooting of rays of light
  • a shooting in one's head

Etymology

From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”). See: Old English Nouns 'scotung', German Nouns 'Erschießung', Swedish Nouns 'skjutning'.