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# innings

noun (an innings, innings; inning, innings in baseball)

«innings» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. In cricket, an innings is a team's turn to bat, or one player's turn at batting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#m1)
2. In baseball (US, Canada) an inning is one of the nine parts of the game in which both teams bat once. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#m2)
3. (informal, UK, Australia) Having a good innings means having had a long life or a long time doing something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#m3)

### In the lessons

In cricket and baseball, scores are counted per innings; children add runs to find totals. In everyday talk about old people: "He had a good innings" (gently said after someone dies at an old age). Phrases: first innings, second innings, a good innings, top of the inning.

### Examples

- England scored 300 runs in their first innings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#x1)
- He made 45 runs in his innings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#x2)
- The game is in the ninth inning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#x3)
- Each team has two innings in a test match. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#x4)
- Grandad lived to 95; he had a good innings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#x5)
- Our team scored 4 runs in the third inning. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#x6)
- The innings ended when the tenth batter was out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#x7)
- Add the runs from both innings to get the total. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#x8)

### Note

In cricket, "innings" is both singular and plural: "an innings", "two innings". In baseball, singular "inning", plural "innings". "A good innings" is a gentle euphemism about a long life.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «innings» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«innings» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/innings.html) on Mova free.