English words starting with ga - page 1

Meanings of Gaberdine:

noun

A smooth, durable twill-woven worsted or cotton cloth.

Usage examples:

A gaberdine suit

Meanings of Gaberdines:

noun

A smooth, durable twill-woven worsted or cotton cloth.

Usage examples:

A gaberdine suit

Meanings of Gaberlunzie:

noun

An itinerant beggar, a vagrant; (sometimes) specifically a licensed beggar, a beadsman; compare "beadsman". historical or archaic in later use.

Meanings of Gabert:

noun

A type of sailing boat or barge chiefly used on rivers and in coastal waters; a lighter.

Meanings of Gabfest:

noun

A prolonged conference or other gathering with much talking.

Usage examples:

These summits are merely empty gabfests

Meanings of Gabfests:

noun

A prolonged conference or other gathering with much talking.

Usage examples:

These summits are merely empty gabfests

Meanings of Gabion:

noun

A basket or container filled with earth, stones, or other material and used in civil engineering works or (formerly) fortifications.

Usage examples:

Kuo said the slope remained stable during mindulle because a permeable structure consisting of larg…

Meanings of Gabionade:

noun

A military fortification or earthwork constructed from gabions; (in later use) a civil engineering project, especially a barrier to protect against erosion, built from gabions.

Meanings of Gabioned:

adjective

Having, protected with, or constructed from gabions.

Meanings of Gabions:

noun

A basket or container filled with earth, stones, or other material and used in civil engineering works or (formerly) fortifications.

Usage examples:

Kuo said the slope remained stable during mindulle because a permeable structure consisting of larg…

Meanings of Gable:

noun

The triangular upper part of a wall at the end of a ridged roof.

Usage examples:

A house with mock-tudor gables

Meanings of Gabled:

adjective

With gables

Usage examples:

Houses with gabled roofs, with its narrow cobbled streets and gabled houses, bruges must be one of …

Meanings of Gables:

noun

The triangular upper part of a wall at the end of a ridged roof.

Usage examples:

A house with mock-tudor gables

Meanings of Gablet:

noun

A small ornamental gable over a buttress or similar feature.

Usage examples:

Above this gablet is the rose window placed with a deeply recessed, shafted, and moulded arch.

Meanings of Gablock:

noun

Especially mining. a type of iron crowbar or lever; compare "gavelock".

Meanings of Gabon:

proper noun

An equatorial country in west africa, on the atlantic coast; population 1,700,000 (estimated 2015); languages, french (official), west african languages; capital, libreville. gabon became a french territory in 1888. part of french equatorial africa from 1910 to 1958, it became an independent republic in 1960.

noun

A country in west africa

Meanings of Gaboon:

noun

A tropical west african hardwood tree which is valued for its timber.

Usage examples:

While the itto study found that loggers target 35 tree species, just two, gaboon mahogany and sapel…

Meanings of Gaboons:

noun

A tropical west african hardwood tree which is valued for its timber.

Usage examples:

While the itto study found that loggers target 35 tree species, just two, gaboon mahogany and sapel…

Meanings of Gabriel:

proper noun

(in the bible) the archangel who foretold the birth of jesus to the virgin mary (luke 1:26–38), and who also appeared to zacharias, father of john the baptist, and to daniel; (in islam) the archangel who revealed the koran to the prophet muhammad.

Meanings of Gabs:

verb

Talk at length, typically about trivial matters.

Usage examples:

Franny walked past a woman gabbing on the phone

noun

Talk; chatter.

Usage examples:

Fans should prefer her smooth delivery to the gab prevalent around the league

Meanings of Gaby:

noun

A stupid or foolish person; an idiot; a fool.

Meanings of Gachupin:

noun

In spanish america, especially mexico: a native of spain or a person of spanish descent.

Meanings of Gad:

verb

Go from place to place in the pursuit of pleasure.

Usage examples:

He had heard that i was gadding about with an airline stewardess

exclamation

An expression of surprise or emphatic assertion.

Usage examples:

By gad! you look young for a doctor!

noun

Short for generalized anxiety disorder.

Usage examples:

People can suffer from gad and depression at the same time

proper noun

(in the bible) a hebrew patriarch, son of jacob and zilpah.

Meanings of Gad about:

phrasal verb

To visit or travel to a lot of different places, enjoying yourself and not worrying about other things you should be doing

Usage examples:

We spent the weekend gadding about london and generally enjoying ourselves.

Meanings of Gad-around:

phrasal verb

To visit or travel to a lot of different places, enjoying yourself and not worrying about other things you should be doing

Usage examples:

We spent the weekend gadding about london and generally enjoying ourselves.