📖 G — The English dictionary · page 16

goalie — Everyday, meaning 1: A goalie is the player who stands in the goal and tries to stop the ball or puck from going in; it is a short, friendly word for goalkeeper.↗ Example: Sam was goalie for our team at lunchtime.↗ · The goalie dived and saved the penalty.↗ · In ice hockey the goalie wears thick pads.↗ · She kicked the ball past the goalie into the corner of the net.↗ · Our goalie wears special gloves to grip the ball.↗ · Nobody wanted to be goalie, so we took turns.↗ · The goalie shouted to tell the defenders where to stand.↗

goalkeeper — Everyday, meaning 1: A goalkeeper is the player who stands in the goal and tries to stop the other team scoring, in sports like football, hockey and netball (goalkeeper in netball is «GK»).↗ Example: The goalkeeper dived and saved the penalty.↗ · Who wants to be goalkeeper today?↗ · The goalkeeper can pick up the ball in the penalty area.↗ · Our goalkeeper wore bright yellow gloves.↗ · The ball flew past the goalkeeper into the net.↗ · In hockey the goalkeeper wears big pads.↗ · She is the best goalkeeper in the league.↗ · The goalkeeper kicked the ball up the field.↗

goalmouth — Everyday, meaning 1: The area right in front of the goal, between the goalposts, in football (soccer), hockey and similar games.↗ Example: There was a goalmouth scramble and Ellie scored.↗ · The goalkeeper cleared the ball out of the goalmouth.↗ · The muddy goalmouth made it hard to dive.↗ · The ball bounced around the goalmouth before going in.↗ · Commentators love exciting goalmouth action.↗ · Defenders must guard the goalmouth at corners.↗

goalpost — Everyday, meaning 1: A goalpost is one of the two upright posts that mark the sides of a goal in games like football, rugby and hockey.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Move the goalposts» means to change the rules or the target unfairly once something has started.↗ Example: The ball hit the goalpost and bounced back into play.↗ · We used two jumpers as goalposts in the park.↗ · In rugby you kick the ball over the crossbar and between the goalposts.↗ · Never swing on the goalposts; they can tip over.↗ · The goalposts were painted white so the players could see them.↗ · It is not fair to move the goalposts after the game has started.↗

goat — Everyday, meaning 1: A goat is an animal with horns and often a beard, kept on farms for milk, meat and wool.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Wild goats live in the mountains and are very good climbers.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A baby goat is a kid; a male is a billy goat and a female is a nanny goat.↗ Example: A farmer has 8 goats.↗ · Each goat gives 2 litres of milk.↗ · Goats and chickens have 50 legs.↗ · How many legs do 6 goats have?↗ · A goat has 4 legs.↗ · The Three Billy Goats Gruff crossed the troll's bridge.↗ · Mountain goats can climb steep rocks.↗ · We fed the baby goats at the petting zoo.↗ · “Little goat, bleat, Little table, appear,”↗ · one he-goat, to make atonement for you.↗ (Torah NUM.28.30, JPS 1917)↗ · one male of the goats for a sin-offering; (Torah NUM.7.16, JPS 1917)↗ · and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.↗ (Torah NUM.28.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth?↗ (Writings JOB.39.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?↗ (Writings PSA.50.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from Gilead.↗ (Writings SNG.6.5, JPS 1917)↗

goatherd — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is to look after a group of goats, usually taking them out to graze in the hills.↗ Example: Peter the goatherd led the goats up the mountain.↗ · The goatherd whistled to bring the goats home.↗ · In the story, the goatherd found a lost princess.↗ · A goatherd in Greece showed us his flock.↗ · The goatherd slept in a small stone hut.↗ · The lonely goatherd sang in the hills.↗ · The Goatherd tried to call it back, but in vain.↗

goatskin — Everyday, meaning 1: The skin of a goat, often made into leather.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something made from goat leather, such as a bag, drum, or a container for water or wine.↗ Example: The djembe drum has a goatskin top.↗ · Travellers carried water in goatskin bags.↗ · Her gloves are made of soft goatskin.↗ · In the Bible story, Jacob wore goatskin on his arms.↗ · The old book is bound in goatskin.↗ · Goatskin is thinner than cowhide.↗ · So she took a strong needle, and some tough thread, and sewed him up in the goatskin.↗

gob — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, slang, rude) Your mouth.↗ e.g. Shut your gob!↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (slang) A lump or blob of something soft and wet, like a gob of spit or a gob of glue.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, informal) Gobs of something means a lot of it: gobs of money.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK, slang) To gob means to spit.↗ Example: Shut your gob, you're giving the game away!↗ · There was a gob of chewing gum under the desk.↗ · He's got a big gob, he tells everyone everything.↗ · I was gobsmacked when I won the prize.↗ · Grandad bought me a gobstopper at the seaside.↗ · They've got gobs of money, they live in a mansion.↗ · Don't gob on the pavement, it's disgusting.↗ · And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.↗ (Prophets 2SA.21.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.↗ (Prophets 2SA.21.19, JPS 1917)↗

gobble — Everyday, meaning 1: To eat something very quickly and greedily.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a turkey) To make the throaty gobble-gobble sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To gobble up is to use up or take over something quickly, like money or land.↗ Example: Don't gobble your dinner; chew slowly.↗ · The wolf gobbled up Little Red Riding Hood's grandma.↗ · The turkey gobbled at the farmer.↗ · The dog gobbled the sausage before anyone could stop it.↗ · Big companies gobble up little shops.↗ · My game gobbles up all the phone's battery.↗ · Whereupon he tore open Drumikin and gobbled up Lambikin.↗

goblet — Everyday, meaning 1: A goblet is a cup with a stem and foot, used for drinking wine or water, often at a feast.↗ Example: The queen raised her golden goblet.↗ · Pour the water into the goblet.↗ · He drank the wine from a silver goblet.↗ · And he searched, beginning at the eldest, and leaving off at the youngest; and the goblet was found in Benjamin's sack.↗ (Torah GEN.44.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy navel is like a round goblet, wherein no mingled wine is wanting; thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.↗ (Writings SNG.7.3, JPS 1917)↗ · and I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites goblets full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them: 'Drink ye wine.'↗ (Prophets JER.35.5, JPS 1917)↗

goblin — Everyday, meaning 1: A goblin is an ugly, small, mischievous or wicked creature in fairy tales and fantasy stories, often green or grey, with pointy ears.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, humorous) A goblin is a naughty child or someone acting greedily or sneakily.↗ Example: The goblin hid the gold under the bridge.↗ · Goblins live in dark caves in the story.↗ · The knight chased the goblins out of the village.↗ · Ugh, a goblin mask for Halloween!↗ · The goblin had long fingers and a crooked grin.↗ · Stop being a goblin and share the sweets!↗ · In the game, goblins drop coins when you beat them.↗

goby — Everyday, meaning 1: A goby is a small fish that lives near the sea floor, in rock pools or on coral reefs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some gobies live together with shrimps and share a burrow with them.↗ Example: We found a little goby hiding in the rock pool.↗ · The goby darted under a stone.↗ · Some gobies are smaller than your fingernail.↗ · A goby and a shrimp share a burrow on the reef.↗ · The aquarium had bright yellow gobies.↗ · Gobies stick to rocks with fins on their bellies.↗

god — Everyday, meaning 1: God, with a capital G, is the name many religions, such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam, give to the one being they believe made and rules the world.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A god, with a small g, is a powerful being in myths and some religions, such as the Greek god Zeus or the Norse god Thor.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Someone admired very much may be called a god in a joke.↗ Example: Many people pray to God at church, at the mosque or at the synagogue.↗ · Zeus was the king of the Greek gods.↗ · Thor was the Norse god of thunder.↗ · The ancient Egyptians had a sun god called Ra.↗ · In our myths topic we wrote a story about a god of the sea.↗ · Some people believe in God and some people do not, and we respect both.↗ · Poseidon, the god of the sea, could make storms with his trident.↗ · And God called the firmament Heaven.↗ (Torah GEN.1.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And God spoke unto Noah, saying: (Torah GEN.8.15, JPS 1917)↗ · I am the LORD their God.↗ (Torah EXO.29.46, JPS 1917)↗ · Would not God search this out?↗ (Writings PSA.44.22, JPS 1917)↗ · The mercy of God endureth continually.↗ (Writings PSA.52.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Shout unto God, all the earth; (Writings PSA.66.1, JPS 1917)↗

godchild — Everyday, meaning 1: A godchild is a child whose godparent has promised to help look after them in the Christian faith.↗ Example: Her godchild was given a gift by the fairy.↗ · My godchild is coming to tea on Sunday.↗

goddess — Everyday, meaning 1: A goddess is a female god, a powerful being in some religions and myths, such as Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom, or Freya in Norse myths.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A goddess is a woman who is greatly admired, for her beauty or for being very good at something («a sports goddess»).↗ Example: Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom.↗ · The Romans called the goddess of love Venus.↗ · Isis was an important Egyptian goddess.↗ · Hindus pray to the goddess Lakshmi at Diwali.↗ · The temple was built for a goddess.↗ · The fans called the tennis star a goddess.↗ · Each Greek goddess had her own symbol.↗ · Libitina was the goddess who presided over funerals.↗ · For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the detestation of the Ammonites.↗ (Prophets 1KI.11.5, JPS 1917)↗

godfather — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A godfather is a man who promises at a child's baptism or christening to help bring the child up in the Christian faith and care for them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The founder or most important early person of something: the godfather of rock.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) The boss of a criminal gang, from the film «The Godfather».↗ Example: My godfather gave me a Bible when I was baptised.↗ · Uncle Joe is my godfather and sends me birthday cards.↗ · At the christening, the godfather held the baby.↗ · He is called the godfather of punk music.↗ · In the film, the godfather ran the gang.↗ · Godparents promise to pray for the child.↗ · The Russian merchant was his godfather, and the kitchen-maid his godmother.↗

godless — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Godless means without belief in God or wicked, having no respect for what is good.↗ In Jewish tradition, meaning 2: (old use, in stories) Godless describes people who are cruel or wicked.↗ Example: That the godless man reign not, that there be none to ensnare the people.↗ (Writings JOB.34.30, JPS 1917)↗ · Upright men are astonished at this, and the innocent stirreth up himself against the godless.↗ (Writings JOB.17.8, JPS 1917)↗ · For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.↗ (Writings JOB.15.34, JPS 1917)↗ · The godless crew stole the king's gold.↗ · The godless witch was punished in the end.↗

godlike — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Godlike means like a god, very great, powerful or beautiful.↗ Example: I said: Ye are godlike beings, and all of you sons of the Most High.↗ (Writings PSA.82.6, JPS 1917)↗ · In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and by his strength he strove with a godlike being; (Prophets HOS.12.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And the king said unto her: 'Be not afraid; for what seest thou?'↗ And the woman said unto Saul: 'I see a godlike being coming up out of the earth.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.28.13, JPS 1917)↗ · He had a godlike strength.↗ · The hero showed godlike courage.↗

godly — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Describes a person who is devoted to God and lives by His ways; pious.↗ Example: That He may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of His godly ones.↗ (Writings PRO.2.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.↗ (Writings PSA.12.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Sing praise unto the LORD, O ye His godly ones, and give thanks to His holy name.↗ (Writings PSA.30.5, JPS 1917)↗

godmother — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) A godmother is a woman who promises at a child's baptism or christening to help bring the child up in the Christian faith and care for them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fairy godmother is a magic helper in fairy tales, like in «Cinderella», or anyone who helps you unexpectedly.↗ Example: My godmother came to my first communion.↗ · Aunt Sophie is my godmother.↗ · Cinderella's fairy godmother turned a pumpkin into a coach.↗ · The godmother promised to help the child grow in faith.↗ · She was like a fairy godmother to the charity.↗ · I have two godmothers and one godfather.↗ · The Russian merchant was his godfather, and the kitchen-maid his godmother.↗