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# innings

«innings» in Mova's school dictionary: **a team's turn to bat, or one player's turn at batting** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) In cricket, an innings is a team's turn to bat, or one player's turn at batting. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/#m3)

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

### In the corpora

- [«A good innings» is a saying from cricket that means a long, full life.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/76-living-well-because-life-is-short/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «innings» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/innings/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.