offeringとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒfəɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɔfəɹɪŋ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɑfəɹɪŋ/
• ハイフネーション: of‧fer‧ing

名詞

offering (plural offerings)

1. gerund of offer
   1. The act by which something is offered.
   2. That which has been offered; a sacrifice.

      votive offerings

   3. An oblation or presentation made as a religious act.
      • 1995, Glen Dudbridge, Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 69–70:

        In many ways an ancient well-established situation is in Place: a dead military hero has reappeared as a ghost bringing trouble and even death to the officials who come to administer the Hsiang-chou prefecture at An-yang; they build a temple in his honour and make him regular offerings of bloody food; he then protects and supports the administrators who are responsible.

   4. A contribution given at a religious service.
   5. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered, such as for sale
      • 1996, Caryn Franklin, Franklin on fashion:

        In recent seasons fetishwear has found its way onto the catwalk, with vinyl, PVC and lycra featuring among the most unlikely designer offerings.

      • 2025 June 26, Marnie Hunter, “This upstate New York town is a showstopper for scenery”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 28 June 2025:

        Ithaca is also a vibrant college town — home to Cornell University and Ithaca College — with more cultural offerings than its size would suggest, thanks in large part to the people those institutions attract.

派生語

関連する語

• offer
• offertory
• oblate
• oblation

動詞

offering

1. present participle and gerund of offer
   • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:

     The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing", […] and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

Further reading

• offering on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “offering”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “offering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.