📖 G — The English dictionary · page 19

gorge — Everyday, meaning 1: noun A deep, narrow valley with steep rocky sides, usually with a river at the bottom.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: verb To eat a lot of food greedily until you are very full: «gorge yourself on cake».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) Your throat; «it makes my gorge rise» means it makes me feel sick.↗ Example: The river runs through a deep gorge.↗ · We walked along Cheddar Gorge.↗ · Don't gorge yourself on chocolate before dinner.↗ · The bears gorged on salmon before winter.↗ · The gorge was so deep we could hardly see the bottom.↗ · Water carved the gorge over thousands of years.↗ · When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting.↗

gorgeous — Everyday, meaning 1: Very beautiful or attractive.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very pleasant or enjoyable: gorgeous weather, a gorgeous cake.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, UK) A friendly way to address someone: «Hello, gorgeous!».↗ Example: What a gorgeous view of the mountains!↗ · The bride looked gorgeous in her dress.↗ · We had gorgeous weather at the beach.↗ · This chocolate cake is absolutely gorgeous.↗ · Look at that gorgeous puppy!↗ · The autumn colours in Canada are gorgeous.↗ · Gran calls everyone «gorgeous» when she says hello.↗ · The King rode on a huge Elephant adorned with the most gorgeous trappings.↗ · These were thy traffickers in gorgeous fabrics, in wrappings of blue and richly woven work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and cedar-lined, among thy merchandise.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.24, JPS 1917)↗

gorgeously — Everyday, meaning 1: In a very beautiful or splendid way, with great show.↗ Example: She dressed gorgeously for the ball.↗ · The room was gorgeously decorated with flowers.↗ · She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, warriors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them handsome young men.↗ (Prophets EZK.23.12, JPS 1917)↗

gorilla — Everyday, meaning 1: A gorilla is the largest kind of ape, a very strong, mostly gentle animal with dark fur that lives in the forests of central Africa.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Informally, a gorilla can mean a big, rough, frightening man (not kind to say).↗ Example: The gorilla sat quietly eating leaves.↗ · A male gorilla can weigh more than two grown men.↗ · We watched the gorillas at the zoo.↗ · Gorillas beat their chests to show strength or to warn others.↗ · Mountain gorillas are endangered and need protection.↗ · The baby gorilla clung to its mother's back.↗ · Gorillas are apes, not monkeys, because they have no tail.↗ · People who hunt gorillas are breaking the law.↗ · The Judge was a Monkey, a large Gorilla venerable with age.↗

gorse — Everyday, meaning 1: A thick, prickly bush with sharp spines and bright yellow flowers that smell a little like coconut, growing on heaths, hillsides and cliffs; also called «furze» or «whin».↗ Example: The hillside was covered in yellow gorse.↗ · Gorse flowers smell like coconut.↗ · I scratched my legs on the gorse bushes.↗ · Small birds nest safely in the prickly gorse.↗ · Gorse fires can spread fast in dry weather.↗ · In New Zealand, gorse is a weed that farmers try to remove.↗

gory — Everyday, meaning 1: Gory means full of blood and violence, often in a film, game or story.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) The gory details are the unpleasant or embarrassing details of something, told fully: «Tell me all the gory details!».↗ Example: That film is too gory for children.↗ · The history book had a gory picture of a battle.↗ · I covered my eyes at the gory part.↗ · Tell me all the gory details of your camping trip!↗ · My brother loves gory zombie stories.↗ · The age rating warns that the game is gory.↗ · Horrible Histories tells the gory side of the past.↗ · The fox left a gory mess in the chicken run.↗

gosh — Everyday, meaning 1: (mild) an exclamation of surprise, shock or delight, a soft stand-in for «God».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: used to add emphasis: «Gosh, it's hot».↗ Example: Gosh, what a big dog!↗ · Oh my gosh, I forgot my homework!↗ · Gosh, you've grown so tall.↗ · "Gosh, thank you!" she said when she opened the present.↗ · Gosh, that was a hard test.↗ · By gosh, he's done it!↗ · Gosh, it's freezing today.↗ · People say "gosh" instead of a stronger word.↗

goshawk — Everyday, meaning 1: a large, fierce hawk with short, broad wings that hunts birds and small animals.↗ Example: Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk.↗ · The goshawk dashed down and tied the bridegroom to a tree.↗ · A goshawk hunts other birds.↗

gosling — Everyday, meaning 1: A baby goose.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) A young, silly or inexperienced person.↗ Example: The goose led her goslings down to the pond.↗ · Goslings are covered in soft yellow fluff.↗ · We saw six goslings at the park in spring.↗ · A baby duck is a duckling and a baby goose is a gosling.↗ · The goslings followed the farmer as if he were their mother.↗ · The gosling hid under its mother's wing.↗ · There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes to tell the fox something her mother has said, and is caught; and there may be other versions.↗

gospel — Everyday, meaning 1: (Bible) The Gospels are the four books of the New Testament — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — that tell the life, teaching, death and rising of Jesus.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church) The gospel is the "good news" of Jesus that Christians share.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gospel (music) is a joyful style of Christian music with roots in African American churches.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) "Gospel truth" or "take it as gospel" means something completely true.↗ Example: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are the four Gospels.↗ · The priest read from the Gospel of John.↗ · The gospel choir made everyone clap along.↗ · It's the gospel truth — I didn't touch your sweets!↗ · Don't take every website as gospel.↗ · The disciples went out to preach the gospel.↗ · It was not the gospel he read, but an old story-book; therefore she might stay and listen to him.↗

gospels — Everyday, meaning 1: (Bible) The Gospels are the first four books of the New Testament, by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which tell the life and teaching of Jesus.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church) The gospel is the Christian message, the «good news» about Jesus.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gospel (music) is a lively style of Christian singing from African American churches.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) «Gospel» or «gospel truth» means something completely true.↗ Example: The four Gospels tell the story of Jesus.↗ · The Gospel of Luke has the story of the Good Samaritan.↗ · The priest read from one of the Gospels.↗ · Our school has a gospel choir.↗ · «Gospel» comes from an old word meaning «good news».↗ · Don't take everything online as gospel.↗ · Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are called the Gospels.↗

gossamer — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Very fine, light threads of spider silk, or anything thin and delicate.↗ Example: Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.↗ (Writings JOB.8.14, JPS 1917)↗

gossip — Everyday, meaning 1: Gossip is talk about other people's private lives, often unkind or not true.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A gossip is a person who likes to talk about others.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To gossip means to talk about other people in this way.↗ Example: Don't listen to gossip about your friends.↗ · They were gossiping about the new boy.↗ · Gossip can hurt people's feelings.↗ · She is a terrible gossip.↗ · I heard some gossip at lunch, but I didn't believe it.↗ · The gossip turned out to be untrue.↗ · The old ladies gossiped over the garden fence.↗ · The Soldier was gossiping with him, and said:↗

gothic — Everyday, meaning 1: (architecture, history) In the style of many churches and cathedrals built in Europe from about 1150 to 1500, with pointed arches, tall spires and big stained-glass windows.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (stories) Gothic stories are spooky tales with old castles, ghosts, dark nights and mystery.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Of the Goths, an old Germanic people, or their language.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Goth, informal) a style of dress and music with black clothes and dark make-up.↗ Example: Westminster Abbey is built in the Gothic style.↗ · Gothic windows have pointed tops.↗ · The haunted castle in the story felt very gothic.↗ · Her teenage cousin likes Goth music and black clothes.↗ · We drew a Gothic cathedral with flying buttresses.↗ · The old Bible was printed in Gothic letters.↗ · The Goths were a people who fought against Rome.↗ · Its walls are built of coral, and the long, gothic windows are of the clearest amber.↗

gourd — Everyday, meaning 1: A large fruit with a hard skin, related to pumpkins and melons, often dried and hollowed out.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A container, bottle or bowl made from a dried gourd, used for water or as a musical rattle.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, slang) Out of your gourd means crazy or silly.↗ Example: The traveller drank water from a gourd.↗ · We painted gourds for the harvest festival.↗ · Maracas were first made from dried gourds.↗ · Pumpkins, squashes and gourds belong to the same family.↗ · In Argentina people drink mate tea from a gourd.↗ · Are you out of your gourd?↗ It's snowing and you're in shorts!↗ · Here he was seized with dreadful thirst; he took his gourd and raised it to his lips.↗ · So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.↗ (Prophets JON.4.6, JPS 1917)↗ · But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.↗ (Prophets JON.4.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?'↗ And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.'↗ (Prophets JON.4.9, JPS 1917)↗

gout — Everyday, meaning 1: A painful illness that makes joints, especially the big toe, swollen, red and sore.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (literary) A drop or spurt of liquid: «gouts of blood».↗ Example: Grandpa's gout makes his toe very sore.↗ · King Henry suffered from gout.↗ · Gout can be helped by medicine and diet.↗ · He couldn't walk far because of gout.↗ · The doctor said it was gout.↗ · (literary) Gouts of flame shot from the dragon's mouth.↗

govern — Everyday, meaning 1: To govern is to rule a country, state or group officially.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To govern something is to control or decide how it happens: rules govern the game.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) To control your feelings: govern your temper.↗ Example: The prime minister and parliament govern the country.↗ · Rules govern how the game is played.↗ · Gravity governs how planets move.↗ · Try to govern your temper.↗ · The queen governed for many years.↗ · A council governs our town.↗ · The Frogs were tired of governing themselves.↗ · Shall even one that hateth right govern?↗ (Writings JOB.34.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jezebel his wife said unto him: 'Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.'↗ (Prophets 1KI.21.7, JPS 1917)↗

governance — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Governance is the way a country, organisation or school is run and controlled, including who makes decisions and how.↗ Example: The report looked at the governance of the school.↗ · Good governance means leaders are honest and fair.↗ · The charity changed its governance after problems.↗ · Citizens have a say in the governance of their country by voting.↗ · The company's governance is checked every year.↗ · Students learned about local governance from the mayor.↗ · Weak governance can let money be wasted.↗

governed — Everyday, meaning 1: Governed is the past of govern: ruled or controlled.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The governed are the people who are ruled.↗ Example: The island was governed by Britain.↗ · The game is governed by strict rules.↗ · The planets' paths are governed by gravity.↗ · Democracy needs the consent of the governed.↗ · The school is governed by a board.↗ · He governed his temper well.↗ · Long, long ago, in old Japan, the Kingdom of the Sea was governed by a wonderful King.↗

governess — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned) a woman who lived in a family's house and taught its children at home.↗ Example: Prince Alphege's governess was alone with her daughter.↗ · The governess taught the children their letters.↗ · In old stories a governess looks after the princes.↗

government — Everyday, meaning 1: The group of people who run a country, state or city and make decisions about laws, taxes and services.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The way a country is ruled.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In old Russia, a government was a large region of the empire, ruled by its own official.↗ Example: The government decides how much money schools get.↗ · People vote to choose the government.↗ · Local government looks after parks and bins.↗ · The prime minister leads the British government.↗ · In the USA, the federal government is in Washington, D.C.↗ · The government built a new hospital in our town.↗ · Long ago, many countries were ruled by kings, not elected governments.↗ · The government gave money to farmers after the floods.↗ · For a child is born unto us, a son is given unto us; and the government is upon his shoulder; and his name is called Pele-joez-el-gibbor-Abi-ad-sar-shalom; (Prophets ISA.9.5, JPS 1917)↗ · That the government may be increased, and of peace there be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it through justice and through righteousness from henceforth even for ever.↗ (Prophets ISA.9.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And I will clothe him with thy robe, and bind him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.↗ (Prophets ISA.22.21, JPS 1917)↗