A surname.
golding
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for golding.
Editorial note
William Golding was my father's English teacher at school (prior to publication of Lord of the Flies).
Quick take
A surname.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of golding gathered in one view.
A kind of red hop, a sub-variety of the Canterbury hop.
(UK, North Midlands dialects) The corn marigold (Glebionis segetum).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for golding.
noun
A surname.
noun
A kind of red hop, a sub-variety of the Canterbury hop.
noun
(UK, North Midlands dialects) The corn marigold (Glebionis segetum).
Example sentences
William Golding was my father's English teacher at school (prior to publication of Lord of the Flies).
The Inheritors by William Golding is the novel that lodged itself in my subconscious more deeply than any other book.
You're implying Golding based it on experience on how unsupervised children really behave, but in fact he made it all up.
The set started with an Ellie Golding song which I thought was the problem.
> Golding says people can also either take motion sickness medication or make behavioural changes.
I agree with everything you said, and still disagree that Golding suspects until an appearance in court is the same as waterboarding them or pulling their fingernails.
According to my father, when people talked to Golding at the time, it wasn't based on real children but it definitely was based on what he believed children would be capable of.
I'm a believer in the William Golding (Lord of the Flies) view of humanity - that the baseline character of humans is quite different than what you see in modern humanity and that what makes us who we are comes from social controls and not instinct.
Key publications presenting the evidence and the arguments are: Lang BF, Burger G, O'Kelly CJ, Cedergren R, Golding GB, Lemieux C, Sankoff D, Turmel M, Gray MW.
But Golding did observe behavior in a boarding school, and while the Tongan boys did also go to boarding school, they also were being raised in Tongan culture, and that culture, including its behavioral norms, was what helped them survive on a desert island.
Quote examples
Who/what has shown Golding's classic novel to be "completely factually wrong"?
Strange how proving the book utterly false has not dimmed its literary reputation even a little, nor caused a resurgence of the "unrealistic" Coral Island that Golding set out to disprove and displace [1].
I did a double-take at the title and am left wondering whether or not the one-letter difference between this and William Golding's Nobel Prize-winning "Lord of the Flies" is purposeful or not.
> “In the models we’re using, even drinking three to four beers after work several days a week can induce [bad stuff for sperm],” Golding said.
Proper noun examples
E.'s Val Golding, lived in a basement with many cats and dreamed 6502 assembly and would welcome anyone's voice calls.
For example, Golding, Kadzere, and Gresty (2005) reported that motion sickness is related to hormonal fluctuations during the menstrual cycle.
Thanks for the link to Ruth Golding, great voice!
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use golding in a sentence?
William Golding was my father's English teacher at school (prior to publication of Lord of the Flies).
What does golding mean?
A surname.
What part of speech is golding?
golding is commonly used as noun.